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 […]
High School HeroesX was elated to win the National Geographic Student Video Contest People’s Choice Award in late February. It is both humbled by the support it received, and cognizant that this recognition is merely the beginning of what we plan to accomplish. We hope that through this first […]
The idea of High School HeroesX (HSHX) can officially be traced to April 8th 2013, when Peter Diamandis graciously accepted a call from an over-eager 9th grader. I recently came across the notes I had prepared for the call; they were mostly highlights from Peter’s book Abundance, […]
High School HeroesX (HSHX) recently completed our $10,000 USA Driving Safety Challenge, and are incredibly pleased to announce the winners! After a multi-month review process by our judges, it was decided that two teams met the criteria to be awarded grant money to continue developing, and hopefully scaling, […]
As we reach the end of our USA Driving challenge, High School HeroesX wanted to highlight one of the members of our advisory board, who is also a judge of final submissions! The below interview was conducted by one of our summer interns, Dylan Gambardella. Dylan also won […]
Our USA Safe Driving challenge has progressed quite well this year, with teams from across the country working on the ten thousand dollar competition! With the challenge due to conclude in the next four months, HSHX wanted to highlight some of the most fascinating projects currently being worked […]
High School HeroesX is thrilled to add Dr. Pawel Gora as the first member to the USA driving challenge advisory board. Dr. Gora received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Warsaw in 2015, and his current work will provide an invaluable resource to our students […]
High School HeroesX (HSHX) is incredibly excited to announce our next challenge! The USA Driving challenge will be a year-long, $10,000 competition. Students have a multitude of ways to make driving better, including but not limited to: designing algorithms to help cities better manage traffic flow, find ways […]
In the past six months, students in our Beijing food safety challenge have been studying the root of food safety and discussing ways to improve standards. Above all, they have been stressing to the youth of their schools, the easiest targets of vendors of unsafe food, prudence in […]
This summer, High School HeroesX President and Founder, Eli Wachs, was one of 14 people to receive the Diller Tikkun Olam award. This award, presented by the Helen Diller Family Foundation along with a 36 thousand dollar grant, is given to fourteen “Jewish U.S. teens for exceptional leadership […]
Our Pennsylvania Environmental Challenge presented by YSA concluded with an event earlier this summer. We had some incredible submissions for this challenge. The students, with occasional help from our advisory board, came up with innovative ways to achieve the core mission of this challenge: teach our youngest children sustainable […]
High School HeroesX awarded a grand prize of 1400 dollars to the winners of our inaugural challenge– narrowing the education gap in Philadelphia. The winning team, from Penn Charter, used the money to expand their 21st century technology curriculum by purchasing LittleBits Stream PD. They have also expanded […]
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