The Kinetic: high school builders, seen

The teen who decided climate science should speak every language

Climate Cardinals started with a few relatives in Iran and now runs one of the largest volunteer translation efforts in the climate movement.

By The Kinetic Staff · 2 min read

Culture

She watched girls quit the swim team. Then she built a global league of camps

By The Kinetic Staff · 2 min read

Heal

A Dubai junior is keeping girls in Bihar in school, one pad at a time

By The Kinetic Staff · 2 min read

Features

Why so many teenagers now run a 501(c)(3)

By The Kinetic Staff · 4 min read

Learn

Three teens, one money class, and a chapter in nearly every corner of the country

By The Kinetic Staff · 2 min read

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Build
A senior at TJ built a job-search tool for people whose brains the listings forgot

By The Kinetic Staff · 2 min read
Learn
Nobody was teaching people how ChatGPT works, so a Cincinnati senior did

By The Kinetic Staff · 1 min read
Build
A $7,000 Braille keyboard ad made a Princeton teen build a $10 one

By The Kinetic Staff · 1 min read
Build
He started a wildfire detector in fifth grade. Now a fire authority uses it.

By The Kinetic Staff · 2 min read
Build
Zoom has a 100-person limit. Coding Pals needed a bigger room.

By The Kinetic Staff · 2 min read
Planet
A Nigerian teenager built a plastic shredder from scrap and started making bricks

By The Kinetic Staff · 1 min read

Spotlights

Learn

Two teens taught coding in shelters. Now it is story hour.

Katherine McPhie, Milan Narula · Open Sesame Stories for Kids

Build

He started with one elementary classroom and a box of Lego robots

Maximilian Goetz · Robotics For All

Build

A Mumbai teenager brought Arduino kits to classrooms in Jammu and Kashmir

Arav Kaul · Project Zul

Planet

Two Hyderabad teens took on e-waste, one dead laptop at a time

Sahithi Radha, Diya Loka · E-Cycl India

Build

The Sonoma County library class taught by high schoolers

Alexander Yoon, Lisa Zheng, Shengkai Huang · 404 Found Code

Learn

In Dhaka, a Grade 10 student teaches English and collects winter coats

Adiba Binte Ahmad Tuba · Esho Pashe Darai Foundation

Heal

A Bronx Science student built a pre-med pipeline for his own classmates

Rayhan Mehal · Youth Medical Association

Planet

A scuba-diving Miami student built a coral lab and took it to the county commission

Andrei Steyn · Students for Coral Preservation

Build

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Build

She won robotics prizes, then spent her Saturdays teaching Scratch

By The Kinetic Staff · 2 min read

Build

Two seniors replaced a $30,000 pouch problem with an app

By The Kinetic Staff · 2 min read

Heal

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Heal

A Grade 10 pupil in Athlone wants his classmates to stop suffering in silence

By The Kinetic Staff · 1 min read

Heal

She rewired the toy aisle so every kid can press the button

By The Kinetic Staff · 1 min read

Planet

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Planet

Two Kenyan 17-year-olds filtered matatu exhaust with maize cobs and coconut shells

By The Kinetic Staff · 2 min read

Planet

In Bangkok, teenagers are planting coral and paddling for trash

By The Kinetic Staff · 1 min read

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Learn

He watched his grandparents fight their phones, then built a nonprofit around it

By The Kinetic Staff · 1 min read

Learn

A Brisbane teen saw a six-computer lab in Sri Lanka and wrote a programming language

By The Kinetic Staff · 2 min read

Culture

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Culture

A Calgary lit mag for the words that make you gasp

By The Kinetic Staff · 1 min read

Culture

Five Iowa City students booked a theater and made charity a cover charge

By The Kinetic Staff · 1 min read

Civic

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Civic

A scam call to her grandfather became a 100-volunteer nonprofit

By The Kinetic Staff · 1 min read

Civic

She registered 85% of her senior class, then made it a national operation

By The Kinetic Staff · 2 min read

Features

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Features

How to start a nonprofit in high school, minus the fantasy

By The Kinetic Staff · 4 min read

Features

The teenagers collecting the grown-ups' trophies

By The Kinetic Staff · 4 min read