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Children & Education
Cotton-top tamarins are critically endangered, and infant survival is only about 50/50. Meet Algo and Don — the Lake Superior Zoo's newest twins, and the reason it now has its biggest tamarin troop ever.
Children & Education
Jackie Coombe substitute-taught Jaden's second-grade class for seven months back in 2023. Three years and two and a half years of paperwork later, she formally adopted him — and he has a mom for good.
Children & Education
Two teenage brothers noticed a classmate freezing in shorts because he had no other pants — so they built a free uniform-swap program that's now saved 1,400 families a combined $140,000.
Children & Education
A 4th-grade science class watched two bald eagles on a livestream for over a year — then helped raise $10 million to save the eagles' home from development.
Children & Education
Yaz'Nique Jean-Francois and Patricia Smith, seniors at Booker T. Washington High School in Miami, were surprised at their awards ceremony with full four-year college scholarships worth $30,000 each — funded by the Kiwanis Club of Biscayne Bay after a last-minute call turned one scholarship
Children & Education
Sixteen-year-old Elise Raurell noticed her South Florida public school never taught hurricane safety — so she built the class herself. "Storm Smart" is now teaching nearly 500 students how to prepare, all peer-led, student to student.
Children & Education
A blind 14-year-old just coded independently in class for the first time — after a nonprofit spent years building a screen-reader fix into one of the world's most-used kids' coding platforms, working directly with blind and low-vision kids to design it.
Children & Education
Nicole Faleri's kidneys were quietly failing with no symptoms. The donor who saved her: a neighbor whose daughter had been one of her students — tested as a match six years earlier, on a whim.
Children & Education
Twenty-one Santa Cruz County, California high schoolers just became world champions in underwater robotics - after finishing third place two years in a row. Hephaestus Robotics, part of a free STEM program open to any student, beat 47 teams from 13 countries at the 2026 MATE ROV World Cham