Podcasts by The Genius Generation
Further podcasts by Group Nine Media and TRAX from PRX
Podcast on the topic Bildung für Kids
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Tavish Sharma from 2022-08-11T07:00
After witnessing a mismatch in food bank donations — massive lines at one, and barely any supply at others — Tavish Sharma created Solve Hunger ( Listen
Emily Flores from 2022-08-04T07:00
Representation matters to Emily Flores. She founded Cripple Media (https://cripplemedia.com/<...
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Neil Deshmukh from 2022-07-28T07:00
Neil Deshmukh learned the hard way that building trust with a community is crucial to an invention’s success. He developed PlantumAI (Listen
Khloe Thompson from 2022-07-21T07:00
Khloe Thompson is an expert at giving back. As the founder of Khloe Kares (https://www.kh...
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Samyak Shrimali from 2022-07-14T07:00
Hand-washing is an easy way to prevent the spread of germs, but many people (even doctors!) aren’t doing it correctly. Samyak Shrimali created Sanjeevani, a system to solve this problem in hospi...
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Ela Gokcigdem from 2022-07-07T07:00
A concussion left Ela Gokcigdem with time on her hands and plenty of ideas. Drawing from white noise therapy that helped her recover, she designed ePearl Technologies, a wireless, noise-cancelin...
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Varun Chandrashekhar from 2022-06-30T07:00
Inspired by the challenges that paralyzed people like Stephen Hawking face when communicating, Varun Chandrashekhar designed SpeakUp (Listen
Angela Zhan from 2022-06-23T07:00
What if there were a way to biodegrade plastic, instead of having it collect in landfills and pollute oceans? Angela Zhan discovered bacteria that can do just that. The microscopic organisms tha...
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Lino Marrero from 2022-06-16T07:00
At 15, Lino Marrero is already a serial entrepreneur: his inventions include the String Ring and the Sole Solution. Most recently, he designed a prototype for the Kinetic Kickz 2.0, a shoe inser...
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Mary Catherine Hanafee LaPlante from 2022-06-09T07:00
One day at softball practice, Mary Catherine Hanafee LaPlante noticed that noxious pesticides and herbicides were being sprayed on the field directly next to her. After arming herself with infor...
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Jonathan Tamen from 2022-06-02T07:00
Jonathan Tamen wants to be an upstander and not a bystander, and so far, he’s succeeding. He and his twin brother founded Helping Hands MB (Listen
Sarah Park from 2022-05-26T07:00
When 14-year-old Sarah Park moved a close family member to tears by playing the violin for them, she realized the huge potential that music can have on a person’s emotions. She created Spark Car...
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Genius Generation Season 2 Trailer from 2022-05-19T07:00
Get ready for Genius Generation Season 2!
Nala Hayden from 2021-08-12T07:00
Nala is the creator of the non-profit organization MyHairLove. Her mission is teaching younger black children how to care for their natural hair while breaking stigmas and negative stereotypes a...
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Anugreh Sehtya from 2021-08-05T07:00
Anugreh, at just 17 years old founded a technology company called Hybrid Idea to solve some of the problems he saw in his home country of India. But his company isn’t just dedicated to one inter...
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Emily and Kyle Tianshi from 2021-07-29T07:00
Emily and Kyle are a brother and sister duo who founded an environmental advocacy organization called Clear Water Innovation ( Listen
Victoria Ren from 2021-07-22T07:00
When Victoria was 13 years old she had an epiphany at a speech and debate summer camp where her peer mentor, Ashna supercharged her learning experience. When Victoria and Ashna realized how powe...
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Peter Gordon from 2021-07-15T07:00
Peter was a freshman in high school when he learned that monarch butterflies are disappearing at an alarming rate, so he decided to act. He formed an organization called Homes4Monarchs ( Listen
Gia Mar Ramos from 2021-07-08T07:00
Ever since she was a little girl, Gia Mar Ramos had an interest in computer science and technology, but as she got older she noticed something: there were very few girls in her technology classe...
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Caleb Anderson from 2021-07-01T07:00
Caleb Anderson is a college student studying aerospace engineering at the prestigious Georgia Institute of Technology. Did we mention Caleb is 12? Yeah, Caleb has always been pretty smart. He wa...
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Max Feldman from 2021-06-17T07:00
Max Feldman believes the key to saving our planet is educating the next generation about the problems facing our environment today. And so that’s exactly what he does with his organization The T...
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Adithi Raghavan from 2021-06-10T07:00
At just 16 years old Adithi Raghavan founded her organization BEEducated (https://www.thebeeducated.org/) when she lea...
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Sophia Kianni from 2021-06-03T07:00
When Sophia Kianni was in middle school she took a trip to visit relatives in Iran. She was shocked by the levels of pollution she saw there. The more she looked into it, the more alarmed she be...
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Devin Martin from 2021-05-27T07:00
From a very early age, Devin Martin has been obsessed with space. In the summer of 2020, Devin made his dream come true completing a summer internship at NASA and working directly on the Mars 20...
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Chander Payne from 2021-05-20T07:00
Chander Payne had a life changing moment in his high school cafeteria (how many of us can say that?). He noticed his fellow classmates didn’t have access to healthy foods like fruit and vegetabl...
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Zachary Siegel from 2021-05-06T07:00
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit and schools closed, high school junior Zachary Siegel found himself with a lot more time on his hands. He used that free time to explore his passions (like compute...
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Hannah&Charlie Lucas from 2021-04-29T07:00
When Hannah Lucas was 15 years old, she developed POTS, a medical condition that caused her to faint without warning. The anxiety around her condition combined with bullying and harassment from ...
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Luna Abadia from 2021-04-22T07:00
While studying abroad in Japan, 16-year-old Luna Abadia saw the effects of climate change first-hand. Typhoons were getting stronger, snow becoming rarer, and traditional crops were no longer ab...
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Kiran Sridhar from 2021-04-15T07:00
When he was 11 years old, a volunteer trip to a center feeding the homeless and hungry in San Francisco opened Kiran Sridhar’s eyes to the devastating effects of hunger and food insecurity. Afte...
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Avi Schiffmann from 2021-04-01T07:00
Very early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, 18-year-old Avi Schiffmann recognized people needed a quick and easy way to get accurate information about the spread of the disease. So Avi put his compu...
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Anisha Musti from 2021-03-25T07:00
15-year-old Anisha Musti isn’t your average teenager. After she lost her great-uncle to Parkinson’s disease, she was inspired to do something to help others. Using the power of quantum computing...
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Ananya Sridhar from 2021-03-18T07:00
When Ananya Sridhar was 12 years old she heard about the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Despite being 2,000 miles away in California, Ananya decided to act. Not only did Ananya invent a new, a...
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The Genius Generation Trailer from 2021-03-11T08:00
Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to change the world? From creating a robot that can sniff out plastic in the ocean to coding an algorithm that detects Parkinson's disease, our hos...
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