Bringing the Moon to your Living Room.
How 14-year-old Philo Farnsworth tinkered his way to the technology that broadcast the moon landing.
14-year-old Philo Farnsworth wasn’t looking up at the sky while plowing the field at his father’s farm in Rigby, Idaho. He was looking down at the straight furrows that coursed over the earth. Read Story
DREAM BIG
Education is for Everyone.
Reading and writing are the basics of an education. See why a 90-year-old Kenyan great-grandmother went back to primary school.
Priscilla Sitienei is not your typical grade-schooler. She’s a little taller. She knows a thing or two about life — she was a midwife for 65 years — and she’s a little slower on the playground than the other students. But Priscilla, known affectionately as Gogo, does know the value of an education. Read Story
IT'S NEVER TOO LATE
Using the Write Words
How an African American Woman Wrote her Way to Freedom.
The story of Phillis Wheatley and how she overcame the scrutiny of 18 men deemed “the most respectable characters in Boston” to publish a book of poetry that lives on today Read Story
EXPRESS YOURSELF
The History of Us.
How a football coach develops young men by teaching them their own history.
Football brings kids from all different backgrounds together and requires them to sacrifice for each other, be selfless and do the job they are asked to do. Creating a team from players with disparate racial, socioeconomic, religious and geographical backgrounds and different styles of upbringing can be quite challenging. Read Story
UNITY
Give Peace a Chance.
How a Mexican-American Marine negotiated peace speaking Japanese during WWll.
We don’t always realize it, but our upbringing can be our biggest advantage later on in life. What we learn from parents, friends and the community we grow up in can teach us things that make a difference at the right time. Read Story
PEACE
Our Local Heroes in Scrubs.
How health care workers saved the day.
Before the pandemic, most of us took nurses for granted. After all, we only saw them when we were about to experience some kind of pain. They were kind, reassuring, and prepped us for what was about to come. Still, many of us were too self-focused to appreciate them fully. Read Story
GRATITUDE
Everybody Can Be a Hero.
How window cleaners brightened the day at a children’s hospital.
Children need heroes. They help kids cope with the world around them, providing a little bit of hope and a lot of entertainment. Read Story
BE SUPER
Including Everybody Means Everybody.
How Inclusion Films is making movies using crew with developmental disabilities.
Annemarie Carrigan is your typical millennial. She has dreams and plans; she is self-confident and wants to make a difference in the world. And she has Down syndrome. She talks openly about her father being a little too overprotective, but she does smile as she says it, and childhood photographs of the two show just how close they are. Read Story
INCLUSION
Turning Tough News Into Hope.
How 11-year-old Jordan Phillips raised $120,000 to help fund cancer treatment.
When we think of 11-year-old girls and their mothers, the first things that come to mind may be tutus, soccer games, kitchen science experiments and crazy photo faces. There’s a special bond between young girls and their moms before life fills up with more demanding schoolwork, career choices and the stress of being a grown-up. Read Story
DO SOMETHING GREAT
Bigger than Life.
How Premier League superstar Sadio Mané is changing the world beyond soccer.
Sadio Mané is the Senegalese star on Liverpool’s football club in the Premier League. In 2019, he was crowned Africa’s greatest player. To watch him play is to be in awe. His speed, direction changes and vision of the field are almost otherworldly. He competes with intensity but is so fluid it seems as if opposing players are somehow weighed down, and the ball is magically attracted to Sadio. Read Story
GIVE YOUR BEST
Fix it Yourself.
How one couple moved hundreds of miles from home to run a center for pregnant teenage girls.
Drew and Cindy are unassuming and polite, and they go about their business without judgment. Drew was a contractor in the Midwest and made a good living. He’s barrel-chested and has the thick forearms and fingers of a man who has worked with his hands for decades. Read Story
INITIATIVE
Courage in a New World.
The story of Stagecoach Mary, the first Black woman to deliver mail in the Wild West.
We like our heroes larger than life, and we like them to be uncompromising in their determination. Mary Fields was tall, and as a recently freed slave in the 1860s, she was also fearless. Read Story
GRIT
Never, Ever Give Up.
The incredible story of the 12-year-old cancer patient who brings joy to half a million children fighting cancer.
Life can feel terribly unfair. And yet for some people, when life hands them the worst possible circumstance, they are at their absolute best. Jessie Joy Rees is just such a person. Read Story
NEVER EVER GIVE UP
Sometimes the Wrong Direction is the Right Way.
How a wrong number, a wrong text and a mix-up led to long-lasting friendships.
Life can be unpredictable, and some of those turns enrich us in ways that wouldn’t have happened if we were all as perfect as an Instagram post. Read Story
MAKE A NEW FRIEND
The Little Things that Make the Biggest Difference.
How one man created a forest the size of Central Park by planting one tree a day.
It’s hard to imagine the impact of the little things we do in our daily lives. A few degrees in course correction today could put us in a completely different universe in a few years. And that’s a good thing. Read Story
