Soccer Without Borders helps refugee boys adapt to life in Baltimore.
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Just a minute or so remained in the contest when Yoppe Kalasa intercepted a pass at midfield. His under-16 team, made up entirely of...
Jack Andraka, North County High School sophomore, 16, winner of the 2012 Intel Science Fair.
Can you explain—in layman’s terms—what the test you invented does?Basically, it consists of some carbon nanotubes, atom-thick tubes of carbon, and antibodies, which bind and capture only this one...
One local teenager’s ripple effect makes waves in other young people’s futures in Rwanda.
Emily Golden is a beautiful teenager from Timonium. She is tall and leggy, with long hair the color of thick honey, eyes flecked with the green and brown of autumn grasses, a quick smile, and she...
Are there really more youth sports concussions these days, or does it just seem that way?
In an office adorned with brightly-colored athletic jerseys on every wall, Kevin Crutchfield—director of LifeBridge Health’s Comprehensive Sports Concussion Program—practices neurology as if it’s a...
<p>Park School graduate Sam O’Keefe is a bike-race champ.</p>
Everyone bike rides as a kid, but Sam O’Keefe turned it into a competitive passion. “When I was 11, my mom signed me up for a camp at Joe’s Bike Shop,” he says. “Eventually, the shop guys encouraged...
<p>Taking time between high school and college has become increasingly common among Baltimore teens.</p>
In the fall of 2011, as The Park School graduate Jamie DeMarco’s classmates packed their duffel bags for colleges across the country, a freshly immunized DeMarco (rabies, Yellow Fever, Typhoid)...
From flight announcements to road signs, prom proposals get creative in area high schools.
For 18-year-old McDonogh senior Tyler Meagher, the hardest part about last year’s prom wasn’t deciding who he was going to take—that would be his girlfriend, Payton Sanchez—but how he was going to...
A new principal raises the bar back up at Baltimore’s historic public high school.
Baltimore City College graduated its first coed class the same year Cindy Harcum, the school's new principal, started junior high. In love with literature and the humanities, she wanted to go to the...
Don't worry parents, those otherworldly Otakon costumes are just a fun part of growing up.
Sixteen-year-old Anna Hiser has been planning her costume for this month's Otakon since last October. It's only her second time attending the annual Japanese anime (or animation) conference, but the...
Gilman QB Darius Jennings has a bright future ahead.
When Darius Jennings was playing pick-up basketball in East Baltimore, he never thought that college recruiters would one day be lining up at his door—especially for a football scholarship. "Football...
