Meet Kelly Liu: The 16-year-old San Jose student who used AI to map dirty air, put pollution sensors in underserved schools and helped push a countywide policy change

Kelly LiuPhoto credit: www.actionfornature.org When Kelly Liu looked at air pollution data around San Jose, she noticed something important was missing. Official monitoring stations could show broad regional trends, but they did not always reveal what students were breathing beside busy roads, industrial areas or older school buildings. The 16-year-old student decided to fill that…

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A man climbed inside a giant Roman storage jar around 1,600 years ago and never came out; archaeologists think they know what he was hiding from

More than 1,600 years ago, as fire engulfed a Roman settlement in what is now Bulgaria, a young man appears to have made a desperate decision: he climbed inside a huge storage jar and hid. He never came out. Archaeologists uncovered his remains inside the vessel during excavations at the ancient Roman colony of Deultum…

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Meet Zayd Badar: The 13-year-old California student who washed about 60 cars, raised $2,100 and set aside half of every sale for local charities

One of Zayd’s car washing clients was Dublin City Councilmember and mayoral candidate Michael McCorriston. (Zayd Badar) A 13-year-old student from Dublin, California, has raised $2,100 through a home-based vehicle cleaning business, with half of every sale going to local charities that support homeless and food-insecure residents. Zayd Badar, an eighth-grader at Fallon Middle School,…

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