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CYBERBULLYING & Trisha Prabhu ~ A truly DaKine, Amazing Teen that is doing the right thing!

How one teen’s app stops cyberbullying before it starts
Social media is filled with rumours and offensive messages that stalk students from school to home – here’s one young woman’s solution

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Cyberbullying is a huge issue for young people. A UK study last year of more than 10,000 people aged 12 to 20 found 70% of respondents admitted to being abusive to someone else online.

Cyberbullying is particularly pernicious, because unlike traditional face-to-face bullying at school that can be left behind after the final bell, online harassment that lives and spreads on social media sites follows you wherever you go.
But one young coder has created a “by kids, for kids” solution to the problem.
Trisha Prabhu came up with an app that aims to eradicate bullying messages before they’re sent, which she says has reached millions of students around the world already.

Trial Date Set for Groundbreaking Kids' Climate Lawsuit

The world is full of amazing teens!!!

“It is a relief to see that the Court understands how imperative it is to get this trial underway as soon as possible, despite all of the delay tactics the U.S. government continues to try to use,” Sophie Kivlehan, 19-year-old plaintiff from Allentown, Pennsylvania said. “I am so excited to have an official trial date on the calendar again so that we can finally bring our voices and our evidence into the courtroom!”  Read more…

The teen who built a prosthetic arm for his dad

Robbie Frei’s father lost part of his arm serving in Iraq, so Robbie designed him a new one – then shared his design so people around the world can 3D print their own prosthetics.

He’s since made the design available for anyone in the world to download. The 18-year-old has heard back from several people who have used the adapter – including a 21-year-old Air Force veteran and a man whose daughter has cerebral palsy.

This German Teen Is Leading A Global Plan To Plant A Trillion Trees

Felix Finkbeiner, 19, has already planted 15 billion saplings.  Alongside setting up Change Chocolate, a successful fair-trade chocolate company to raise money, the tall, spectacled teenager has joined with three of the world’s biggest conservation charities to launch the most ambitious reforestation project in history. While adults talk about addressing climate change, Finkbeiner says, young people act. “Children could plant 1 million trees in every country on earth and offset CO2 emissions all on their own, while adults are still talking about doing it,” he says.

The Time for Change is Now

The power of youth. Love it! They are our future.

The teenagers using tech to rebuild bodies

According to the World Health Organisation, there are 40 million amputees in the developing world. Just 5% of these have access to any form of prosthesis.

A number of teenage inventors are already tackling this challenge.

4 Teenage Inventors Changing Our World

Many are too young to drink, drive, or even catch an Uber – but they’re already filing patents. A new generation of precocious youths is solving the problems of today with ambitious, ground-breaking tech. So in case you didn’t already feel like an underachiever, here’s our shortlist of four incredible teenagers already reshaping the world we live in…READ MORE

Hannah Herbst, 17, came up with the Beacon (Bringing Electricity Access to Countries through Ocean Energy), which captures energy directly from ocean waves.

A 12-year-old scientist's invention to beat water pollution

Gitanjali Rao, a 12-year-old scientist who lives in Colorado, was so concerned by the reports she saw about Flint Michigan’s water that she decided to do something about it.

Students demand action on gun violence with nationwide walkout

Taking charge, determined to fix what adults have not. Exactly one month after 17 people were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, survivors of the massacre joined tens of thousands of students across the U.S. by walking out of school on Wednesday morning...

Claudette Colvin: The 15-year-old who came before Rosa Parks

In March 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks defied segregation laws by refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin did exactly the same thing. Eclipsed by Parks, her act of defiance was largely ignored for many years. She herself didn’t talk about it much, but she spoke recently to the BBC.