Students at Escola Milton Pessoa faced a difficulty in recognizing themselves in their quilombo communities due to distinctions in colour and race. In response to this, students started racism talk circles which fostered pride in the student’s perception of their skin colour and identity.

The students of Yengwe Combined School noticed most of their peers came from deprivileged backgrounds, such as orphanages, and had a shortage of resources. They identified certain impacted students and created social circles of support which helped restore greater mental health and realign the impacted student’s focus towards academics.

Ever groaned towards the youth who simply seem to “have it too easy”? The children at Yane Sandanski Secondary School attempted to debase the stereotype attached to Gen-Z by developing five different business models to showcase the creativity / entrepreneurial skills of today’s youth and their ‘I CAN’ willpower.

The Children of Al Naqura Primary School wanted to make their school a happy place for all. To do so, they wanted to bring a positive atmosphere to the school. They worked hard to uplift, clean, and improve their school so that students would feel very motivated to learn.

The students of Pui Ching Middle School found out that there was a large amount of plastic bag wastage in their school. So, they introduced reusable plastic bags and contacted other organizations to spread awareness around the importance of recycling.

After discovering that their recess time was inefficient due to children not being physically active, a group of students decided to introduce a variety of fun games to recess to make it very productive.

The Environmental Wardens of International Community School discovered the lack of hygene plaguing their community. They decided to fix this by spreading awareness around the importance of staying clean and mantaining a garbage free community.

The children of The Donahies Community school wanted to make a difference in the lives of the homeless people in their neighbourhood by raising awareness and taking care of their needs. They toiled tirelessly to create presentations and different carepackages which, ultimately, helped improve the livelihood of the homeless!

The students of Linde Primary School realized that bees were growing sparce in their community. They realized that their habbitats were getting destroyed and thus decided to create "Hotels" for pollinating insects on school grounds. In the spring, they recieved their first bee tenants, and are expecting many more to arrive!

The children realized that they wanted to learn beyond the limited knowledge in school textbooks. They decided to feed their curiosity by gathering used books and tirelessly making bamboo bookshelves to create a beacon of knowledge; their very own library!

The lack of a laboratory and other scientific facilities made learning in Maira Belem State school feel boring. So the students decided to change that by going into the Amazon Rainforest and examining its many wonders to explore scientific concepts in action!

Fighting weight issues and body shaming, children from SMK LAMPONG LAUT Malaysia came up with innovative ways to campaign and spread positivity and awareness for the ill effects of body shaming on mental health.

We’ve all been weary of consuming microplastics or any such synthetic material, but the students of GEMS Modern Academy, Dubai, have gone a step further to recycle plastic and create an entirely new product of plastic that is biodegradable and edible!

Students of Fondary Primary School, France, saw the hunger that the homeless people faced on the road. They created a new solution to help ease donating food to the homeless to reduce waste and go one step further towards responsible consumption and production.

In our modern world we still have a food crisis. Students from Kenya have questioned why they still are unable to meet their basic needs and have turned to scientists to develop plants that are more resilient to pests and diseases.

By paying attention to simple tasks your life can be more organised. The student Abdulaziz Elyas found their shoes to get misplaced with the rest of their family members. So they created a storage box with labels to recognise which shoe is whose. They shared this with other families who went and applied the same mechanism.

Plastic, water and energy are used carelessly resulting in a lot of wasteage. The students of Nazaret Oporto wanted to raise awareness on resource conservation and used multiple mediums such as videos, posters, games and stories to bring across their message.

The students from SMK Kubang Kerian, Malaysia, saw that the food wasted could be managed better to create more food for those in need. Through the development of games, waste tanks and distribution systems they spread their message and filled not just the stomachs but the hearts of numerous people in their community with lack of access to food.

A student from Canada beat the summer heat by developing a game to help combat the power shortages during the summers. The game raised awareness towards sustainable appliances and how to efficiently use electric energy to prevent wastage and move one step closer to a sustainable world.

Students at Institución Educativia La Herradura had unstable electricity making their classroom environment in-conducive to learn. The students banded together to use renewable energy sources to create a central lighting system that illuminated not only the classrooms, but also the faces of 249 students who could now engage better with their education.

Students at Zilla Parishad Primary School showed their relentless dedication to their education as they continued their studies during the lockdown despite the absence of access to the online medium. They created a network of students to play and study simultaneously, spreading the message through social media, welcoming over 265 children to keep learning.

The students of Unidad Educativa Nuestra Señora de la Sabiduria have been quick to notice the pandemic’s impact on care for the elderly and decided to create a blog. They started it off by writing a real-life story of an elderly woman, while mixing it up with fiction, to help spread awareness

The climate emergency is knocking at our door, and the students of TK Al Azhar Salatiga have been proactive and taken charge over the drying lake Rawa Pening. They wanted to cleanse the lake and learnt how to make daily use items from water hyacinth and organised a workshop on the same which was attended by 20 children.

Students of St. Vincent Secondary School, Cork, have decided to create a rich and positive learning environment themselves and increase biodiversity at school by helping pollinators with food and shelter. The funds raised through a sale were used to fund this project resulting in a profound impact on students with special needs.

The job of a child is to play, and when we combine play with learning the results are baffling. The children of Remez School Nahariya found it hard to learn spellings and so they looked towards solving a Rubik’s cube to learn how to spell and in the process enjoy and make more friends.

It is time to cross the borders and embrace our global family. At Nakanoshima Chuo Elementary School, the children realised the need to help build a school in Bangladesh and started a fundraiser by selling rice. Using FIDS, they raised thrice as many funds as the previous year.

Consumerism has plagued the world and the students at Pui Ching Middle School wanted to raise awareness towards a sustainable culture. They set up a flea market advertising green buying and collecting second hand goods. They sold harvest all over the world and donated their income of USD 14,085 to charity.

Tina Alawieh along with their mentor Fida Taher noticed that students in Jordan were unable to make it to school due to poor access to shoes and winter jackets. They started a fundraiser selling kits to grow your own flowers which resulted in collecting JD1500 and impacting 150 children, allowing them to come back to school.

The 2020 lockdown created a strain on resources for multiple families. In an attempt to help lift some of the burden off their parents the students of Aracia Green Academy, Kenya, engaged with agriculture innovatively by establishing a sack farm complemented by a green house and sustainable methods of procuring manure through vermiculture.

The August 2020 explosion in Beirut was a shocking sight for the world. The students at Dawha Makassed School were proactive in helping the community. They ran social media campaigns and worked for days packing food, sorting clothes and collecting stories and games.

Students from SK Rajah Bahar participated in creating an equitable education for the differently abled through creating a multi-purpose smart dustbin and taking the special needs students to a pizzeria to learn how to make pizza. The project was shared on social media and a crowdfunding website with a resultant gain of MYR 960.

The COVID-19 pandemic had affected multiple family’s economic status and created a barrier for access to distance learning. Students created resources to foster entrepreneurship and financial self-sufficiency for the families in their community and built a more supportive society.

Many times we lose our way, not only outdoors but indoors, when we’re at a new office or a mall for instance. So step aside Google, because the students at Pokrovski Kvartal have developed an app to help us navigate our way inside buildings and have helped millions of people save time.

Smoking is not cool, and the students at Ecole Sainte Jeanne-Antide wanted to communicate that clearly to their peers. They met up with a politician to educate themselves on the law of smoking under 18 and proceeded to share this information with their peers. Most of them quit smoking, and two even joined sports teams.

Plastic is choking our planet and the efficient way to solve this crisis is by working at a macro level with industries. Students have come up with a model to help offices separate and recycle plastic waste. While one start-up has adopted this, they plan to now expand to thousands of businesses.

The students of Karlovačka Gimnazija weren’t happy with the souvenirs being sold to tourists. They designed small and mass producible souvenirs that better represented their community with QR codes on each leading to information about Serbia. They connected with local communities and spread the project to over 100 people.