2026

Natasha Agarwal: Image Credit: BelieveNBooks In 2021, Natasha Agarwal was an eighth-grader with a concern that ‘too many children did not have books at home.’ Five years later, the school book drive she began has grown into ‘BelieveNBooks,’ a youth-led nonprofit that has donated more than 250,000 books and reached over 50,000 children in the…

A farmer in southern Oregon transformed 70 acres of his 400-acre barley farm into a wetland in 2021, creating an unexpected refuge for wildlife while helping address agricultural water pollution. Karl Wenner, a co-owner of Lakeside Farms near Klamath Falls, worked with conservation agencies and other partners to convert flood-prone farmland into a managed wetland….

Each one of us spent the pandemic doing something that we normally wouldn’t have the time to. While some picked up numerous indoor hobbies, others studied hard enough to change career pathways. Benjamin Choi, a then 17-year-old kid, put his spare time during the phase to design an accessible device that does not require brain…