14-year-old Heman Bekele, a 9th grader at W.T. Woodson High School in Annandale, Virginia, has won the 2023 3M Young Scientist Challenge, the nation’s premier middle school science competition organized by 3M and Discovery Education.…
Tinia Pina is the founder and CEO of Re-Nuble, an agricultural tech startup that transforms food waste into organic fertilizer. The company employs technology and biologicals to transform food waste into organic liquid nutrients which…
John Legend is launching It’s Good, a social app that provides users with personalized food and travel recommendations from their social circles. Geared to open to the public soon, the tech startup is geared to…
British twin brothers Oliver and Alexander Kent-Braham are the co-founders of Marshmallow, a digital insurance company. The firm caters to the needs of marginalised customers and those who usually struggle to find affordable insurance. With…
On a mission to democratize wealth-building, former investment banker Avion Gray co-founded Belong in 2023 to educate, inform, and empower young investors. The platform launched earlier this year after securing €3.4 million ($3.7 million) in…
David Rice Hedgley, Jr. has been described as the father of 3D graphics. His paper explaining the solution to the groundbreaking hidden-line problem in computer 3D graphics was initially met with criticism. Today, Hedgley’s algorithm…
Consumers constantly need ingenuity, innovation, and a groundbreaking shift – be it in entertainment, technology, or even food. But how do you create something new and exciting when everything has already been done? You tweak…
Terysa Ridgeway is the Technical Program Manager, Mergers and Acquisitions at Google and the author of the popular Terysa Solves It book series. Recently, she launched Alilo the Explorer, a toy robot that teaches children…
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