Plushie Kindness Confetti: Hockey Team’s Teddy Bear Toss Collects 80,000 Stuffed Animals With Help From Local Teen

Plushie Kindness Confetti: Hockey Team’s Teddy Bear Toss Collects 80,000 Stuffed Animals With Help From Local Teen

Teddy Bear Toss – Credit: Calgary Hitmen on Instagram Once a year, stuffed animals take flight inside an arena in Hershey, Pennsylvania, flying through the air in a cavalcade of color creating ‘sweet cuddly mayhem’ on the ice. For a quarter century, the Hershey Bears, a minor league team in the American Hockey League, has … Read more

Montana Program Makes Youth Offenders Talk with Their Victims and Recidivism Plummets

Montana Program Makes Youth Offenders Talk with Their Victims and Recidivism Plummets

CRYJ juvenile criminal justice center in Montana – submitted by CRYJ In Montana, a focus on restorative justice is reducing juvenile recidivism through a nonprofit program that engages them, rather than punishes them. The nonprofit believes that it’s actually far more challenging for juvenile offenders to look their victims in the eye and explain why … Read more

Determined Engineering Student Builds Prototype Modular Home to Help Homelessness

Determined Engineering Student Builds Prototype Modular Home to Help Homelessness

Ribal Zebian and his modular home on stage at a demonstration – credit, supplied by Mr Zebian A driven Ontario teen is determined to end homelessness in his city, and has designed a modular tiny home system to tackle the problem. Ribal Zebian is only 18, but he’s wasted no time in finding his purpose. … Read more

Best Friends Exchange the Same Birthday Card–Back and Forth–for 81 Years Straight

Best Friends Exchange the Same Birthday Card–Back and Forth–for 81 Years Straight

Courtesy of Pat DeReamer and Mary Wheaton, whose birthday card exchange earned a Guinness World Record On her 95th birthday, Pat DeReamer received a greeting card that was already 81 years old. It all started in 1944, when the Kentucky resident first received the card for her 14th birthday, after her family moved to Indianapolis … Read more

YouTube’s CEO limits his kids’ social media use — other tech bosses do the same

YouTube’s CEO limits his kids’ social media use — other tech bosses do the same

Neal Mohan, the CEO of YouTube speaks during a panel for the Summit for Democracy on March 30, 2023 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images YouTube’s CEO Neal Mohan is the latest in a line of tech bosses who have admitted to limiting their children’s social media use, as the harms of being … Read more

‘Dancing Wheelchair’ Helps Paralyzed Teen Feel ‘Cool’ Being a Different Sort of Dancer (WATCH)

‘Dancing Wheelchair’ Helps Paralyzed Teen Feel ‘Cool’ Being a Different Sort of Dancer (WATCH)

credit – Allyson Keiser With a little ingenuity, and some modifications to an old piece of tech, 11-year-old Desa Kaiser is back where she belongs: on the dance floor. Being paralyzed from the waist down is no impediment to the girl from Pennsylvania, who suffered the debilitating injury in a crash that saw her spend … Read more

Teens May Have Come Up with a New Way to Detect, Treat Lyme Disease Using CRISPR Gene Editing

Teens May Have Come Up with a New Way to Detect, Treat Lyme Disease Using CRISPR Gene Editing

Tick species that spread Lyme disease – credit CDC From 60 Minutes comes the story of a Georgia science team that carried the Stars and Stripes to Europe for an international science competition and finished in the top ten by using genetic engineering to develop a superior testing and treatment method for Lyme disease. If … Read more

Australia is trying to enforce the first teen social media ban. Governments worldwide are watching.

Australia is trying to enforce the first teen social media ban. Governments worldwide are watching.

In this photo illustration, iPhone screens display various social media apps on the screens on February 9, 2025 in Bath, England. Anna Barclay | Getty Images News | Getty Images Australia on Wednesday became the first country to formally bar users under the age of 16 from accessing major social media platforms, a move expected … Read more

14-Year-Old Wins $25,000 for Origami That Can Hold 10,000 Times its Own Weight

14-Year-Old Wins ,000 for Origami That Can Hold 10,000 Times its Own Weight

– credit, Society for Science A young man has folded his origami hobby into to a potential career path as an innovator, having used the Japanese artform to create a structure capable of holding 10,000 times its own weight. His demonstration, which included extensive testing and personal invention, took first prize at the Thermo Fisher … Read more

Two People from Minnesota Who Met in the Hospital After Waking up from Comas Are Getting Married

Two People from Minnesota Who Met in the Hospital After Waking up from Comas Are Getting Married

Zach Zarembinski and Isabelle Richards – credit, family photo Everyone knows love works in mysterious ways; but rarely more mysterious than in the story of Zach and Isabelle. Partners in life and partners in podcasting, it was 7 years ago that the two Minnesotans were partners of a distinctly less pleasant kind. At 18, Zach … Read more