Meet the 2023 Time for Change Youth Challenge Winners!
Time for Change Youth Challenge Winners:
Kindergarten-7th Grade
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Uniforms
Jayleen, 6th grade, of Los Angeles, California leads a schoolwide effort to increase access to affordable school uniforms and establish a sustainable model of donated uniforms for students in need.
Pages of Possibility
Autumn, 2nd grade, of Alpharetta, Georgia is the founder of “Pages of Possibilities,” a network of little libraries filled with stories depicting young people making change to inspire and empower her classmates and other young people in her community. The communitywide effort will offer free access to books promoting change, including stories about the climate, recycling, and building a better world.
Time for Change Youth Challenge Winners:
8th-12th Grade
SIREN
Recognizing the alarming frequency of school shootings, “SIREN” founder Rebecca Wang, a 12th grader in San Jose, California, and her team, embarked on a mission to create an effective solution. Based on their research and in consultation with educational and federal institutions, they developed a patent-pending gunshot detector and communicator designed to provide real-time alerts to students, faculty, parents, and law enforcement, cutting down the time it takes to alert law enforcement from 5 minutes to 5 seconds and vastly improving the accuracy of that communication.
Geaux Girls STEM
Himangini Chauhan, a 12th grader from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, founded Geaux Girls STEM, an initiative centered on a STEM workshop series that leverages the power of older students to mentor younger peers, fostering a supportive community of changemakers and imparting not just knowledge but also leadership skills and confidence. Through this mentorship, Geaux Girls hopes to work with Louisiana’s Title I schools to ultimately address the underrepresentation of women and minorities matriculating to college for degrees in STEM fields.