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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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