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Sonja Rasula: Helping artists, designers and creative entrepreneurs grow their businesses

Like many good ideas, Unique USA started as a way to solve a problem. Sonja Rasula was sitting in traffic in Los Angeles, frustrated with having to drive across the city to her favorite shops to buy gifts for a friend. There should be one big place to buy beautiful, curated things from many local designers, she thought. So began the idea for Unique LA, a pop-up market of locally made goods…

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Juliet Morrison: Fighting infectious diseases with new and traditional tools of science

In her quest to combat infectious diseases, Juliet Morrison takes a slightly different approach in her study of microscopic killers. She combines new computational tools with traditional scientific methods, and she looks at ways to turn down a body’s immune response to a virus (which can sometimes go overboard), rather than fighting the virus itself. That’s how Morrison and a team made a…

David Harris: Opening STEM career opportunities for students of color

As an African-American engineer at Microsoft, David Harris wanted to help make the tech industry more diverse and decided education was the key…

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Ben Klasky: Taking to the great outdoors to teach kids science and conservation

Ben Klasky doesn’t mind when kids are slightly uncomfortable. As president and CEO of IslandWood, a 255-acre outdoor learning center near Seattle, he knows that kids on overnight programs there learn better when they’re outside their comfort zone. That means the spooky forest sounds they hear at night open them up for daytime learning about forests and pond invertebrates. …

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The Detroit Bus Company enriches students in quest to improve local transit

In southwest Detroit, nearly half of the adults lack a high school diploma and more than half of the kids live in poverty. For the last two years, The Detroit Bus Company has run a free, door-to-door shuttle in the neighborhood to get kids to enrichment programs that help them stay in school, be productive and learn job skills. The small bus line is the creation of Andy Didorosi, a…

Hector Alvarez and Paty Lucero: Bolivian beanie export biz helps children in need

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Ronnie Notch: Teaching music and tech to empower youth

“My ignorance was a definite weakness,” says Ronnie Notch, an accomplished St. Louis producer and owner of music company King of Twelve Recordings. He had been naïve about the music industry in his younger years, which he says led to people taking advantage of him. That ignorance has become fuel for an innovative music production class Notch now teaches to teens, helping them avoid his pitfalls.…