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17-Year-Old STEM Scholar Pens Powerful Essay On Invaluable Rewards Of Pushing Past Self-Doubt

Guest ContributorAugust 15, 2018

My name is Diana Mendoza, and I am the next generation of this country’s great architects, engineers and designers. At 17, I am heading into my junior year a...

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Dress Coded: The Time Has Come For Schools To Accept Girls’ Bodies

Guest ContributorJuly 31, 2018

By Revati Mahurkar - If it’s happened to you, you remember that moment. That moment when a teacher pulls you aside and tells you what you are wearing is not app...

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12-year-old Gives Powerful And Moving Speech At “Families Belong Together” Rally In DC

wyskJuly 2, 2018

12-year-old Leah from Florida is the daughter of undocumented immigrant parents. This is a speech she gave at a "Families Belong Together" rally in Washington, ...

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Project Girl, A Film Series Inspired By True Stories Of Girlhood

wyskJune 29, 2018

Project Girl is a film series and community inspired by true stories of girlhood. Friends Connie Saltzman, Kate Tolo and Stephanie Bonnier founded the project t...

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How Becoming A Parent Made Me Claim My Feminism

Guest ContributorJune 21, 2018

By Suzanne Hemming - I gave birth to my daughter in 2013 and it was as if my eyes suddenly opened and for the first time I saw the world we live in properly. ...

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History-Making Plumber Campaigns To Fund Her Nonprofit’s First Construction Skills Summer Camp For Girls

wyskJune 20, 2018

Fact: women make up less than 4% of skilled laborers in the U.S. construction industry (9% of the industry, overall). "It’s an unacceptable imbalance that has e...

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Seventh Grader Creates Poignant And Powerful Animated Video About Living With Anxiety

wyskJune 20, 2018

Maura Collins is bullied every single day. But not by other students, Maura has "a bully in her mind". That’s how this seventh grader equates living with anxiet...

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Read Powerful Gun Control Speech This 7-Year-Old Gave In Front Of U.S. Capitol On National Die-In Day

wyskJune 13, 2018

Last month, Havana Chapman-Edwards, a 7-year-old who has suffered personal loss due to gun violence, was the only student in her elementary school to walk out i...

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Meet The Dynamic Duo On A Determined Mission To Bring Books To Girls In Ghana Orphanage

wyskMay 31, 2018

In February, 7-year-old Havana Chapman-Edwards, one of the most inspiring girls we know, launched a crowdfunding campaign so she could buy books for kids in a b...

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