High School HeroesX President and Founder Eli Wachs has been in the media recently as he speaks of his goals through HSHX– to empower youth to effect positive change in their communities–, and encourage high school social entrepreneurs. This January, Eli was listed as one of Startup Grind’s […]
High School HeroesX is thrilled to announce the addition of its first two members to its Pennsylvania Environmental Challenge advisory board! Marc Bielas is a co-founder at the Devise Company, a consultancy for first time entrepreneurs and an active connector. Apart from his role at the Devise Company, […]
Original post Written by the Penn Charter School A group of six Penn Charter students won the Philadelphia Education Challenge High School HeroesX (HSHX) Philadelphia prize for the STEM coding and computer literacy curriculum they developed for third and fourth graders at the Gesu School’s summer school. In […]
High School HeroesX is thrilled to launch its fourth challenge: a statewide environmental challenge in Pennsylvania. The grant money to be awarded at the end is a total of $1000, contributed by Youth Service America. Five schools in the state have already begun work on the challenge, which […]
The Beijing challenge is off to a great start, with students working diligently to increase safety measures for food. Students from the following schools are working on the challenge: Beijing National Day School, Beijing 101 school, The High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China, Beijing Bayi High […]
High School HeroesX is thrilled with the official launch of our Beijing Food Safety challenge. After researching issues ranging from traffic to trying to find balance to some of the problems created by the disproportionate number of elderly people versus young people in China, students from five Beijing […]
High School HeroesX is thrilled to launch its third challenge in conjunction with MOVE Clubs: a state wide challenge in Massachusetts on teen mental health. This follows HSHX’s year long Philadelphia Education initiative and ongoing Beijing Food Safety challenge. MOVE is an organization co founded by College Freshman Ashley […]
The final week HSHX spent with The Gesu School this summer culminated in tying together many of the elements we had been working on with the students all summer. On Monday, July 20th, Penn Charter spent their final day focusing on an overlooked part of technology : typing […]
Though the 2015 summer portion of our education challenge is complete, HSHX is still planning on expanding its efforts come fall to effect more positive change in the education sector, and help more students learn the tools they need to succeed in higher education and in life. To do so, we […]
Due to travel, the third week at Gesu was limited to one visit by Penn Charter. Despite technological difficulties, the day was far from over as the computer literacy curriculum turned into a fun day of spelling games that were recommended by the Gesu students. The first game […]
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