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Children & Education
Fatou arrived at the Berlin zoo in 1959, believed to be about two years old. At 69 she is the oldest gorilla living in human care anywhere in the world — against a typical wild lifespan of 35 to 40 years. No cake for her birthday, though. Sugar isn't good for her now.
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
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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