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Nine-year-old girl's wish to raise money for clean water takes off after her tragic car crash death
Rachel Beckwith wanted to raise $300 by her ninth birthday to help bring clean water to people in poor countries. Now donors the world over are making sure her wish is realised after hearing of her death. Rachel was about $80 short of her goal when she turned nine in June, and then a horrific highway traffic accident took her life away last week.
A pastor from her church then reopened the donor page that she had created with her mother on a social network. Donations began to pour in from all over the world. On 12 August 2011, Beckwith's campaign collections broke the $1 million mark. When the campaign ended on October 1, 2011, it had raised $1,271,713. This money was donated by 31,980 people across the world.
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11-yr old inventor employs Raspberry Pi, becomes a finalist at Broadcom MASTERS, and launches Robotics Program
Annika Urban won a 2nd place award in Engineering at the 2014 Broadcom MASTERS. With the money her school received for her participation as a finalist, Urban’s gone on to start SENSE, Student Exploration Network for Science and Engineering, as a way to teach robotics to other young students. Urban caught us up to her post-Broadcom MASTERS projects and shared insight and advice for other young students interested in science.
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Chi Hoang: Winner of the PHP Innovation Award of 2014
Chi Hoang was born in Belgium from Vietnamese parents but lived in Germany and more recently in France where is works now as a PHP developer. He won the 2014 PHP Programming Innovation Award edition with 9 nominated packages and 48 points. He actually submitted more packages in 2014 but not all were considered innovative. Chi Hoang is available to be hired by companies interested in a developer with these skills. Interested companies should send a message to info@phpdevpad.de. You may find more about his story and the nominated packages in the interview below in this article.
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A Free Tennis Lesson With Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic is the world's #1 tennis player. In this video Novak explains the key aspects of each tennis stroke that he believes are the underpinnings of great tennis technique.
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