Month November 2020

Inspirational Nugget: Noa Mintz, founder of Nannies by Noa at Age 12 Nannies by Noa is a full-service childcare agency, serving families in New York City and the Hamptons. In 20 years, I will be … “In a business that… Continue Reading →

Inspirational Nugget:  Zea Tongeman, 14years Designs a Recycling App Zea Tongeman, a 14-year-old from south London, was not a self-proclaimed tech geek. “I used to think technology was just fixing computers and saying thing like: “have you tried turning it… Continue Reading →

Inspirational Nugget: Jack Andraka Jack Andraka, 16, is the most recent grand prize winner of the Intel international science and engineering fair – where he unveiled an inexpensive way to detect pancreatic cancer. At the age of 14 the Maryland… Continue Reading →

Inspirational Nugget: Rene Silva While most Brazilian teenagers are interested in computer games, homework, football or baile funk, Rene Silva has dedicated himself to fighting negative stereotypes about his favela community. He set up his first newspaper at the age… Continue Reading →

Inspirational Nugget: RaSia Khepra at 15 Hadiya Pendleton, 15, was killed at random by a gunman on Chicago’s South Side, a week after she performed at Barack Obama’s inauguration celebration in January. Khepra was familiar with the sounds of gunfire… Continue Reading →

Inspirational Nugget: Zhan Haite 15years; Changed China Zhan, an ambitious 15-year-old middle-school student in Shanghai, became an unlikely crusader against the country’s draconian residence registration system, the hukou, a bureaucratic knot tying hundreds of millions of migrant workers to their… Continue Reading →

Inspirational Nugget: Shamma bint Suhail Faris Mazrui as Minister of State @ 22 In 2016, at just 22 years old, Mazrui was appointed Minister of State for Youth Affairs in the United Arab Emirates. According to the Los Angeles Times,… Continue Reading →

Inspirational Nugget: Jace Norman, 18 He is known as superhero sidekick Kid Danger on the hit Nickelodeon television series Henry Danger. But in the past two years, he’s been branching out off-screen, as well—a decision he says was spurred by… Continue Reading →

Inspirational Nugget:  Adut Akech, 18 Adut Akech Bior; born 25 December 1999) is a South Sudanese-Australian model. Akech made her fashion week runway debut as an exclusive in the Saint Laurent S/S 17 show and went on to close both… Continue Reading →

Inspirational Nugget:  Storm Reid, 15 In Ava DuVernay’s diverse re-imagining of A Wrinkle in Time, which premiered earlier this year, Reid appeared alongside Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling as the main character, Meg Murry—a role that Reid told… Continue Reading →

Inspirational Nugget: Millie Bobby Brown, 14 In 2018, a year in which a season of Stranger Things will not air, she became the youngest person to ever be named one of TIME’s 100 most influential people as well as a… Continue Reading →

Inspirational Nugget: Bindi Irwin Bindi Irwin carried on her father Steve Irwin’s conservation legacy following his death in 2006. When she was 8 years old, she launched “Bindi the Jungle Girl” to encourage more kids to get interested in animals… Continue Reading →