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TIJUANA, México – El primer día de clases de un niño en la escuela de la Fundación Yes We Can World, él o ella reciben dos camisetas, zapatos nuevos y una mochila llena de útiles escolares. La escuela es para…
Last December, Estefanía Rebellón volunteered to help migrant families in Tijuana, Mexico. The city is near San Diego, California, along the U.S.-Mexico border. Some of the people Rebellón met in Tijuana had traveled thousands of miles. Many had left home…
P.S. 139, in Brooklyn, New York, has a school garden where students grow their favorite fruits and vegetables. It also has a school cookbook filled with recipes that use those foods, as well as a technology club, a soccer club,…
The Casagrandes is a new show on Nickelodeon. It’s a spin-off of the series The Loud House, which follows the Loud family. In The Casagrandes, Loud family friends Bobby and Ronnie Anne move away and have new adventures in a…
LA LIMA, Honduras— At 9:00 on a steamy August morning, students at the Gabriela Mistral school line up playfully between two yellow cords in the courtyard outside the school office. A volunteer from the Honduran Red Cross calls out a…
For the past year or so, the news has been filled with stories about migrants coming to the U.S. from Central America. I wanted to understand why people were leaving their home countries. So in August, I went to Honduras…
American astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir have successfully completed the first-ever all-female spacewalk. On October 18, they floated outside the International Space Station (ISS) with wrenches and screwdrivers while repairing the station’s power grid. The historic spacewalk lasted seven…
In an ancient folktale, a giant rock blocks the entrance to a cave filled with treasure. A door appears only for those who speak a secret phrase aloud: “Open, sesame!” This is an early example of a password. Passwords have…
What do producing a hit pop song, operating a Mars rover, and making instant ice cream have in common? They all take science, technology, engineering, math—and women. The new CBS TV show Mission Unstoppable asks game-changing women in STEM careers…
On August 30, fans of college sports teams celebrated College Colors Day. A fourth grader at Florida’s Altamonte Elementary School wanted to show support for his favorite team, the University of Tennessee (U.T.) Volunteers. But he didn’t have one of…
Not long ago, toy stores had separate aisles for boys and girls. People spoke out against this, and retailers listened. Target, for one, got rid of gender-specific toy sections in 2015. Then people started paying closer attention to product packaging.…
In 2012, Topher White visited a wildlife sanctuary in Indonesia. He and his fellow volunteers were hiking through the rain forest when they came across a man cutting down a huge tree. They were watching illegal logging in action.…
In 2014, Disney’s Maleficent showed there was more to the infamous Sleeping Beauty villain than evil spells. Over the course of that movie, Princess Aurora grew compassionate toward her godmother, Maleficent, as she learned more about her. Eventually, the two…
UNITED NATIONS, New York— It’s 10 a.m. on Saturday, September 21. Five people are seated at the center of the Trusteeship Council Chamber. Four of them are youth climate activists. The fifth is United Nations (U.N.) secretary-general António Guterres. Typically,…
Leading climate activists gathered at the United Nations (U.N.) Youth Climate Summit, in New York City, on September 21. Of about one thousand attendees, 42 were under the age of 18. They were invited to the summit after being nominated…
Mario and the Hole in the Sky is based on the true story of Mario Molina, a Mexican scientist who helped solve a big problem. Molina was worried about a hole in the ozone layer over our planet. The ozone…
Conoce a un chef que está alimentando comidas calientes y frescas a los sobrevivientes de desastres. A fines de agosto, el huracán Dorian se formó sobre el Océano Atlántico. La tormenta tocó tierra en Bahamas el 1o de septiembre, derrumbando…
