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Nonprofit Group Makes Farmers of Urban Teens: Food Project Provides Produce to Local Markets.
Halfway between Dudley Square and Uphams Corner, 20 teenage interns work on an urban farm to produce vegetables and fruits for local shelters and farmers’ markets. US Health and Human Services Secreta... --7/15/2010
Chicago Students Soup Up School Menus.
Chicago Public School students can say goodbye to doughnuts, Pop-Tarts and daily doses of nachos and greasy pizza. The Chicago Board of Education on Wednesday adopted new nutritional standards for sch... --5/4/2010
Chicago High Schoolers Demand Better Food at Board Meeting: Daily Fare that Includes Pizza, Nachos Called Sickening.
When school officials defend serving a daily menu of nachos, pizza, burgers and fries, they often say they're just giving students what they want. But an angry coalition of students plan to speak out ... --3/24/2010
High School Students Participate in “Babies Driving Robots” Project.
Four students from the Charter School of Wilmington (CSW) gained valuable research experience last summer on a University of Delaware project that has gained national attention--robot-assisted infant ... --1/7/2010
With DNA Testing, Students Learn What’s What in Their Neighborhood.
The New York Times reports that few of Brenda Tan’s classmates at Trinity School understood what she was doing when she went around requesting a single strand of hair from each of them, then subjectin... --12/28/2009
Recovery High School Students Have a Say in State Drug Report.
Jon Doherty began using OxyContin when he was 12, got addicted, and got arrested. He wanted to quit, but rehab and the Scared Straight Program weren't working. Through his father — not the school dist... --11/27/2009
Students Win Grant To Make A Better Wheelchair.
Students at Staten Island Tech in Oakwood Heights have come up with a way to make life more comfortable for people who use wheelchairs. Their project, called the "Comfort Control Wheelchair Seat," rec... --10/26/2009
Miami Students Create Vision of Future, Making Eyeglasses for Peers and Community.
Students at Felix Varela High School have no excuses when they cannot read what the teacher writes on the board. Because in a corner classroom on the first floor, 60 students are eager to make them a ... --10/25/2009
Sacramento High School Students Create Their Own Community Supported Agriculture Program.
Several (make that almost 1,000 this year) industrious high school students, with the help of a very involved teacher, have created their own Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program, which raise... --10/9/2009
Students Run L.A. Celebrates 20 Years of Helping At-Risk Kids Cross the Finish Line.
The non-profit organization Students Run Los Angeles (SRLA), an after-school program that each year prepares 3,000 at-risk secondary school students to complete the Los Angeles Marathon, will commemor... --9/2/2009
D.C. Youth Cook with White House Chefs to Honor Military Families.
Brainfood, a D.C.-based nonprofit, announced today that local teens from its after-school culinary program are working with White House chefs to prepare food for President Obama's 4th of July picnic, ... --7/3/2009
High School Students Build a Cloud Chamber.
When high school science teacher Steve Boint put out a call to students interested in building a cloud chamber to photograph subatomic radioactive particles flying through the school, he wasn’t sure i... --11/13/2008
Alaskan Students Petition to Revamp Sex Education.
Politically minded Anchorage college students and local high school students are banding together to reform the way sex education is taught around the state. They're reversing roles and telling their ... --10/12/2008
Teens Use Genetic Research to Expose Mislabeled Fish in New York City.
The New York Times reports that according to two high school students turned high-tech sleuths, many New York sushi restaurants and seafood markets are playing a game of bait and switch. Kate Stoeckle... --8/22/2008
Teens Play Big Role in Blood Drives.
When the first drops of Courtney Taylor's blood dripped into the donor bag last week, the 18-year-old from Mesa joined the largest single age group of blood donors in Arizona: teenagers. The American ... --7/10/2008
Students Work to Eradicate Diseases.
As research for their competition project on vaccines took shape, a few Summit High School International Club students put the phrase “act locally, think globally” into action. This week, as they cont... --2/17/2008
Denver High School Students Seek Maternity Leave.
Pregnant students in a Denver high school are asking for at least four weeks of maternity leave so they can heal, bond with their newborns and not be penalized with unexcused absences.
The request is... --1/7/2008
Girls Make History by Sweeping Top Honors at a Science Contest.
The New York Times reports that girls won top honors for the first time in the Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology, one of the nation’s most coveted student science awards, which were ... --12/4/2007
NYC Students Push to Mandate Sex Education.
Public schools aren't required to offer sex education, but a group of students is calling on the city to mandate such courses as early as middle school. "It's as important as our other classes," said ... --11/27/2007
West Virginia High School Students Protest School's Response to Staph Infections.
Students at Buffalo High School are taking a drastic approach to raise awareness to MRSA and other staph infections. A large group of students have been protesting all day in front of the school, refu... --10/22/2007
CA Teens Educating Peers about Hepatitis B Virus.
Hepatitis B is known as the silent killer because an infected individual doesn't show any symptoms. In fact, an individual can appear perfectly healthy, says Jameson Lam, 20, who is a summer intern at... --8/29/2007
Summer Lab Rats: High School Students Experience Active Chemistry Work Over Summer.
Some high school students get summer jobs washing dishes. Christina Gates spends hers washing protein chains out of lysozomes. Along with Big Sky High School classmates, Gates is working in a research... --8/14/2007
Prescription for Success: Program Introduces Latino Students to Health Care Field.
For Naomy Davila, a 15-year-old Southeast High sophomore, the question, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" is simple: she plans to be a paramedic. The chance for community service the job offe... --7/31/2007
Positive Trends Recorded in U.S. Data on Teenagers.
Fewer high school students were having sex and more were using condoms in 2005, according to the latest government report on the well-being of the nation’s children. The teenage birthrate hit a record... --7/13/2007
California Students Raise Sheep in Prize-Winning Competition.
A small group of students and their mentors divvied up tasks as they sheared, inspected and gave medicine to sheep on the school farm. One ran the clippers, another swept wool, and others did other ta... --7/6/2007
Florida Students Stage Mock Funeral March to Highlight Dangers of Chewing Tobacco.
In a mock funeral procession, about 50 North Florida high-school students marched to the steps of the Old Capitol, grieving those who have died as a result of using chewing tobacco. The students sough... --6/3/2007
Bay Area High School Students Make Major Political Impact with Hepatitis B Awareness Week.
The Jade Ribbon Youth Council are not your average high school students; the 13 members are addressing a major health crisis by establishing the first Hepatitis B Awareness Week in nine cities: Fremon... --3/15/2007
U.S., Britain Fare Poorly in Children Survey: UNICEF Ranks Well-being of Youngsters in 21 Developed Countries.
The United States and Britain ranked as the worst places to be a child, according to a UNICEF study of more than 20 developed nations released Wednesday. The Netherlands was the best, followed by Swed... --2/15/2007
California High School Students Organize AIDS Awareness Event, Combining Information with Art.
Several clubs from Murrieta Valley High School recognized World AIDS day and used song, poetry, dance and statistics to illustrate that the deadly virus continues to wreak havoc. As the choir sang, im... --12/3/2006
Teens Working on Montana Meth Project Label County Jail 'Meth Hotel.'
The Cascade County Regional Detention Facility was decorated Wednesday with a large sign created by the Boys and Girls Club of North Central Montana reading "Meth Hotel," to participate in the theme o... --7/28/2006
High School Students Help Publish Report on Virus Hunt in Public Library of Science Genetics.
Studies may show that high school students are losing interest in science, but don’t tell Andrew Hrykowian. As a sophomore at Greater Latrobe High School, he began research that would lead to his disc... --6/26/2006
CA Teens Organize Summit for Campaign for Safe Cosmetics.
A coalition of teenagers from Marin and the national group Campaign for Safe Cosmetics will play host to the first National Safe Cosmetics Teen Summit in Ross this weekend. The summit seeks to encoura... --2/22/2006
Pennsylvania Student Council Kicks Off Celebrate Life Week in Response to Suicides.
The Neshaminy High School student council has organized "Celebrate Life Week," starting Feb. 6. The students hope this first-ever suicide awareness event will remind teenagers why life is worth living... --1/28/2006
New Hampshire Students Press Lawmakers for Tobacco Education.
New Hampshire doesn't spend any of the millions of dollars it gets from a tobacco lawsuit settlement for prevention programs, but students from Dover want that to change. The St. Thomas Aquinas High S... --1/25/2006
National Teen Survey Finds Illegal Drug Use Down, Prescription Drug Use Up.
Alcohol use and cigarette smoking among teenagers are at historic lows, but the number of high school students abusing prescription drugs like Oxycontin is rising, and sedative abuse is at its highest... --12/20/2005
High School Students Win Scholarships in National Westinghouse Science Competition.
As summer interns working at a laboratory in Phoenix, Anne Lee and Albert Shieh, two high school students, came across a problem reading computerized information on the human genome. Instead of giving... --12/6/2005
Deaf Students May Have Advantage in Studying Geologic Faults.
Students spend years honing their skills in pattern recognition and spatial-thinking. But those who use American Sign Language are often already adept at this 3-D thinking, and it may give them an adv... --10/14/2005
Pregnancies Among Unmarried Teens Have Plummeted, According to CDC.
U.S. teen pregnancy and birth rates have plummeted to all-time lows as more teenagers delay sex, abstain from it, use contraception and use it more effectively. Abortions also are down. The decline, t... --9/30/2005
Teenagers Gather at National Conference to Propose Solutions for Childhood Obesity.
A group of teens came up with guidelines for politicians, corporations and schools to help solve the problem of childhood obesity last week, but the bottom line is good nutrition starts locally. Forty... --7/9/2005
Educational Program Helps Native Americans Enter Health Careers.
When Verrica Livingston took her 7-year-old brother to the Indian Health Services hospital in Gallup, N.M., for treatment, they were turned away because of a shortage of doctors. "Sick kids shouldn't ... --7/3/2005
Sleep Deprivation Affects Academic Performance, According to Researchers at Northwestern University.
A new study published in the June issue of the journal Pediatrics has found that current high school start times deprive teens of much-needed sleep. The researchers found that because of the sleep dep... --6/6/2005
Majority of Students in Stratosphere of U.S. Science and Math Competitions are Children of Immigrants.
The current issue of Education Week reports on students' ascension into the elite sphere of scientific research, through raw intellect and hours of hard work, from grade school on up. Many of the nati... --5/25/2005
Florida Teenagers' Research on Caribbean Fruit Flies Has Global Implications.
Eleven students at George Jenkins High School are participating in a $1 million study of the Caribbean fruit fly, commonly called "Caribfly," in Florida. The study seeks to answer some basic unanswere... --5/22/2005
High School Students in South Texas Make Educational Film Promoting Condom Use.
With at least six classmates pregnant, it was clear to a handful of girls that Mission High School needed more information on safe sex. So the four students at this school deep in South Texas along th... --5/7/2005
Students Join Anti-Tobacco Protests on 50-Year Anniversary of Marlboro.
Several upstate New York teenagers are in New Jersey today, protesting Marlboro cigarettes -- 50 years after the brand was introduced to international markets. The youths traveled to the site of the s... --4/28/2005
Oregon Students Converge on Capitol to Support Expansion of School-Based Health Clinics.
Dozens of students from throughout Oregon came to the Capitol on Thursday to support expanding school-based health-care clinics. The clinics now exist in 43 schools in 14 Oregon counties. They provide... --4/8/2005
High School Athletes Speak Out on Pressure to Bulk Up, at Town Hall Meeting.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that recent steroids scandals have shined a light on a high school sports scene in which teens are similarly driven to be bigger and better. Nearly 75 Bay Area high... --3/24/2005
Teens Take on Cosmetics Industry with National Education Campaign about Health Risks.
Young women are taking on the $35 billion cosmetics industry one eyeliner at a time.Their national campaign to promote safe cosmetics is applying idealism and energy to educate girls-and boys-about ph... --3/14/2005
High School Nursing Students Learn About Medicine And Life.
Teenagers enrolled in Hillcrest High School's practical nursing program undergo the pain of up to four extra hours of homework a night, and going to school on Saturdays. Director Barbara Ardaajy ackno... --2/25/2005
Missouri Teens Speak Out About Sex Education Bill.
Teenagers told legislators Wednesday what they thought about a bill being considered that would no longer require schools to teach about contraception in sex education classes. Some of the teens said ... --2/17/2005
Minnesota Teens Want a Smoking Ban for Parks, No Ifs, Ands or Butts.
Students at North High School are asking city officials to ban smoking in parks and other outdoor city facilities. Three teenagers will present a petition and their findings to the city's Parks and Re... --11/29/2004
High School Sports Participation Climbs to Record 6.9 Million.
Football is still king, but bowling appears to be the sport gaining popularity most rapidly among high school athletes. More than half of all high school students in the United States are involved in ... --8/25/2004
Survey Shows Teens Emulate Parents' Risky Driving Behaviors.
High school and middle school students overwhelmingly say their parents are or will be the biggest influence on how they drive, but the practices many teens say they are emulating represent some of th... --8/10/2004
Davidson Institute Names 16 Students as 2004 Davidson Fellows.
Nicole Ali's work at a leading national research facility furthered the understanding of how external umbilical cord stem cells can be used in the treatment of blood disorders, including leukemia and ... --8/3/2004
CDC Study Shows Teen Smoking Rates Sink to Lowest Levels in a Decade.
Smoking rates among U.S. high school students sank to their lowest levels in at least 13 years, according to a study released on Thursday, bolstering hopes the nation is recovering from an epidemic of... --6/17/2004
Antidepressant Seen as Effective in Treatment of Adolescents.
The New York Times reports that a landmark government-financed study has found that Prozac helps teenagers overcome depression far better than talk therapy. But a combination of the two treatments, th... --6/3/2004
High School Students Take Push for Better Sex Ed to School Board.
A dozen students from Curie High School's Forefront Program, a leadership and political-action training course, attended last week's meeting of the Chicago Board of Education to demand the public scho... --6/2/2004
Despite Improvements, Many High School Students Still Engaging in Risky Health Behaviors.
Although significant improvements have occurred over the past decade in various health-related behaviors among high school students, many continue to engage in a variety of behaviors that put them at ... --5/20/2004
HHS Launches Organ Donation Education Program for High School Students.
HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson today released a new organ and tissue donation education program to raise awareness among high school students and to help them make informed decisions about donation. He ... --4/20/2004
Massachusetts Student's Cancer Research Wins Top Science Prize at Intel Competition.
A Massachusetts teenager who created a faster way to diagnose cancer won the top prize Tuesday in a national contest for young scientists.
Herbert Mason Hedberg, 17, who attends North Attleboro High ... --3/16/2004
High School Students Vie for Top Science Prize in Intel Competition.
Felicia Yen, 17, of Dix Hills, New York, has spent the past two summers among the brightest U.S. scientists researching gene therapy and breast cancer. Her research at the University of California in ... --3/11/2004
Teenage Rate of Pregnancy Drops in U.S.
The New York Times reports that a new state-by-state breakdown of teenage pregnancy and abortion rates in 2000 shows declines among all racial and ethnic groups and in every state. This continues a de... --2/20/2004
High School Biotech Class Challenges Ideas About Race.
In high school, where cliques often form along racial lines, biotechnology students recently made a startling discovery: More than half of the class at San Jose's Piedmont Hills High School, made up o... --2/15/2004
High School Students Win Top Prizes in Westinghouse Science Competition.
On Monday, a 17-year-old from New York City won the 2003-04 Siemens Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science and Technology for research that helps explain how the brain works. Yin Li, a senior at St... --12/8/2003
New Survey Shows Large Decline in High School Smoking.
A new survey shows a large decline in high school smoking. According to William Corr of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, "The results of the 2002 National Youth Tobacco Survey released today by the... --11/13/2003
Tobacco Companies Agree to Halt Advertising, Under Student Pressure.
Four tobacco companies will stop advertising their products in news magazines sent to schools across the country, Attorney General William Sorrell said Monday. The tobacco companies agreed to remove t... --11/10/2003
Montana Students Contribute Projects to Aria-9 Project over Antarctica.
Experiments from 10 Montana schools will fly in a high-altitude balloon over Antarctica this winter, through the Montana Space Grant Consortium at Montana State University. Bozeman and Manhattan stude... --10/27/2003
Alaska Students Build Skeleton Kits as Lasting Lessons.
There are two moose, two bear and two wolves in Tim Lundt's classroom at Burchell High School: His anatomy class recently finished putting together actual skeletons for the three animals, and now the ... --10/20/2003
Girl Scouts Learn About Health Investigations through CDC's Mock Outbreak.
Thirty-two Girl Scouts shuttled between work stations Saturday learning how public health officials deal with a disease outbreak, a hands-on experience the youngsters said they could not have gotten i... --10/18/2003
Isabel Gives Students Chance to Study Storm Activity.
Looking up from his tracking chart, meteorologist Johnathan Bermudez offered his studied prediction of Isabel's consequences. "I don't think it'll be that bad," Bermudez said Wednesday. "I don't think... --9/18/2003
Teens' Group Educates Others About Bipolar Disorder.
Kelsi Clayton remembers fellow students asking if she heard voices, if she scratched off her skin, if she felt suicidal. "People see one type of mental illness repeatedly and think that's what it all ... --8/26/2003
Massachusetts Students Research Quality of Information on Radon in Science Textbooks.
Christopher Shea and Katherine Woodman-Hardy, seniors at Northampton High School, next week will present the culmination of months of research to an audience of experts, scientists and academics at a ... --10/28/2002
Young Scientists, in Washington for Forensics Challenge, Encounter Real Challenges.
A stolen car, illegal drug paraphernalia, a potential bomb nearby, and the fact that the "crime scene" involved a white van and two .223-caliber shell casings made yesterday's mock drama eerie. On the... --10/23/2002
Teens Produce Public Announcements, TV Specials to Inform Peers on Health Issues.
Unimpressed by preachy messages made by adults, local teens have written, acted and produced health announcements that are designed to reach teens by not mincing words. Usually, "adults try to oversim... --10/15/2002
Arkansas Teens Educate Community About Organ Donation.
A group of students from Pangburn High School has gone to work to spread the truth about becoming an organ donor. They started by educating themselves. Tara Parsons, a Pangburn senior, said, "There wa... --8/9/2002
Texas Students Count Killer Bees with Cutting Edge Statistics.
While many people run from so-called "killer bees," one group of South Texas students is trying to count them. Thirteen Science Academy students are spending a week with a Texas A-and-M University sta... --8/2/2002
Hopi Students Do Summer Research at Harvard in Medicine and Engineering.
Eleven Hopi High School students recently returned from Harvard's summer program, where they studied at either the College of Medicine or the College of Engineering. Three summers ago, Hopi High Schoo... --7/24/2002
Students Join Scientists in Search of Asthma Triggers.
Students and teachers of more than 20 middle and high schools will be helping NASA scientists and researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine to better understand the causes of pedi... --6/28/2002
Iowa High School Students Win Summer Internships Through World Food Prize Foundation
Thirteen high school students from all over Iowa will spend eight weeks this summer as interns, working at agricultural research centers in various areas of the world, sponsored by the World Food Priz... --5/20/2002
Bay Area Girls Get Their Sea Legs in Maritime Semester.
Sailing the Caribbean aboard the 118-foot, two-masted schooner True North, 16 young women are finding themselves at sea. Under the auspices of the America True yacht racing foundation, underprivilege... --3/18/2002
Students Discuss Advances in Genetics at Michigan Conference.
More than 600 biology students from Jackson Community College and high schools around south central Michigan on Tuesday took part in a genetics-update conference at JCC, led by Samuel A. Rhine, direc... --2/28/2002
Youth Study Seal Innards with Scientists in Alaska's Jason Project.
Two dozen students are working with scientists at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward and on Portage Glacier in the Chugach National Forest. An 80 percent decline in the number of harbor seals has led... --2/17/2002
Middle School Students, in National Engineering Competition, Design Cities of Tomorrow.
More than 100 middle school students unveiled their ideas for the cities of tomorrow at the National Engineers Week Future City Competition on Saturday, in which 30 teams from dozens of schools in th... --1/28/2002
Florida Youth with Diabetes Seek to Influence Congress Decisions on Research.
Students from Limestone Creek Elementary School and Jupiter High School want U.S. Rep. Mark Foley to remember them when it comes time to plead for state money in the upcoming legislative session for j... --1/11/2002
Students Design Bridges for National Competition.
Two Kuna teens are among more than 30,000 nationwide who have so far submitted entries to the West Point Bicentennial Engineering Design Contest, reports the Idaho Statesman. The Internet-based compet... --1/9/2002
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