A Rhode Island teen with a passion for collecting pre-owned objects has found a way to use his hobby to help others. For Shane Jones, 16, from Wakefield, collecting secondhand items is “just something fun to do,” he says. He’s handy at using a metal detector to recover small items—bottles, coins, and other small trinkets—and…
Teen Hobbyist Buys Storage Containers for Trinkets, Decides to Return Contents to Heartbroken Owner
The Lessons I Learned As a Teen Entrepreneur
Article by Milan Kordestani The business world is full of gatekeepers. Your ability to acquire funding, find business partners, network and even retain clients can hinge on signifiers outside your control. Historically, white males over the age of 35 have controlled the levers of entrepreneurship in the United States. Fortunately, the onset of the internet and…
Teen Lumberjack Who’s Been Chopping Wood Since Age 6 Starts Own Business Selling Firewood
Michigan eighth-grader Cameron Janda has been chopping wood ever since he could read. Now 13 years old, he’s been running his own business chopping and selling firewood for two years—and he still finds time to ace his schoolwork. Proud mom Barbara Kline says it is her son’s rigorous organization that makes all this possible. “The…
Deputies Save Suicidal 17-Year-Old After Talking for an Hour as She Hung From Overpass
Florida deputies came to the aid of a suicidal teen this Father’s Day as she hung from an interstate overpass, threatening to take her own life. The deputies secured her to the railing, talking to her for an hour before lifting her to safety on a fire engine ladder. Flagler County Sheriff’s Office received a…
Teen Spends Over 1,200 Hours Building a 35-Foot Wooden Fortress by Hand in His Backyard
A teen from Michigan who devoted more than 1,200 hours to a mammoth project during the start of the pandemic proudly showcases his impressive 35-foot-long wooden fort with an underground bunker, built entirely by hand. Seventeen-year-old Jake May of Sault Ste. Marie began in March 2020 with a triangular roof perched 2 1/2 feet off the…
Teen With Bulimia and Anorexia Weighed Just 77lb, Reclaims Life With Weightlifting
Ellie Makin, from Manchester, England, says that healthy diets and exercise plans have helped her beat her life-threatening eating disorders after she weighed a mere 77 pounds (35 kg) at her lowest. The 17-year-old would spend hours on the running machine each week in a bid to “stay thin.” But after suffering a stroke due to her…
Deputy Comforts Teen Who Rear-Ended Her Cruiser and Attends His Graduation the Next Day
When a Florida high school senior rear-ended a sheriff’s deputy’s cruiser in a traffic jam, the deputy had an unpredictable response. Rather than book him, she comforted the shaken teen. Apart from that, she also went above and beyond her role and accepted an invitation to his graduation the very next day. Sergeant Kara Vance…
16-Year-Old Creates Incredible Image of the Moon Using 50,000+ Photos: ‘It Almost Killed My Laptop’
An incredibly detailed image of the Moon was composed by an Indian teen, who captured 55,000 images—racking up over 186 gigabytes on his laptop in the process—for a pastiche of celestial proportions. Sixteen-year-old Prathamesh Jaju from Pune, Maharashtra, shared his HDR (high-dynamic range) image of a waning crescent moon on Instagram. He admitted that amassing…
16-Year-Old Boy Saves Struggling Homeless Man Ignored by Pedestrians by Performing CPR
A teen from England has been credited with saving a homeless man’s life. The school student performed CPR on the sidewalk by following instructions given over the phone, helping revive the man before medics arrived. Bradley Jacobsen, 16, from Skelmersdale, was on his way into Liverpool city center to shop for clothes on April 21, when…
13 on Trial in Paris for Cyberbullying, Death Threats Against Teen Who Criticized Islam
Thirteen people went on trial Thursday in Paris accused of cyberbullying or death threats against a teenage girl who posted online comments critical of Islam. The case is the first such trial under new jurisdiction France created this year to prosecute crimes online, including harassment and discrimination. Defense lawyers asked the judges to delay the…
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