Celebrate the Civic Season w/ BRI!
Our 2023-2024 Virtual MyImpact Challenge Fair is June 28th.
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Congratulations to our 2023-2024 MyImpact Challenge winners!
Grand Prize - $10,000
Anna Kunkel
The Seven Hills School
Cincinnati, OH
For founding the Student Alliance for Immigrants and Refugees (SAIR) to support immigrants and refugees in Cincinnati with English education, welcome letters and baskets, a writing contest, and more.
Principles Essay
Project Report
Photo Documentation
Video Documentation
First Prize - $7,500
Sebastian Tan
Sewickley Academy
Sewickley, PA
For creating OutsideConnection, a job-listing website for the formerly incarcerated reentering society.
Principles Essay
Project Report
Photo Documentation
Video Documentation
Second Prize - $5,000
Grace Liu
Syosset High School
Syosset, NY
For founding Research to Empower, which provides free training in research to underrepresented populations.
Principles Essay
Project Report
Photo Documentation
Video Documentation
Third Prize - $2,500
Brayden Pape
Helix Charter High School
La Mesa, CA
For founding the PATH Interscholastic Leadership Team (PILT) to combat homelessness in San Diego County in coalition with People Assisting the Homeless (PATH).
Principles Essay
Project Report
Photo Documentation
Video Documentation
Honorable Mentions - $1,500
Alec Avedissian
Harvard-Westlake School
Studio City, CA
For founding Impact Academy to connect nonprofit organizations with teens who can provide social media services as a community service.
Sailee Charlu
Orange County School of the Arts
Santa Ana, CA
For founding the afterschool program Habla Arte to provide education in the arts and public speaking in the Spanish language.
Saheb Nibber, Sergei Kudriavtcev, and Omar Reyes
The Awty International School
Houston, TX
For founding Impact Lab to sponsor non-coding "hackathons" where young people can brainstorm solutions to societal problems.
Madison Poulson
Mooresville High School
Mooresville, IN
For founding the Pioneer Passion Project, a nonprofit networking carnival to connect the families of special needs individuals to organizations that provide services.
Sanjana Senthil
Carroll Senior High School
Southlake, TX
For founding the Kathai Teen Literary Organization to amplify student voices in publishing and literary space. This includes the Kathai Literary Journal, which is entirely written and edited by teens.
Savina Wang
Arnold Beckman High School
Irvine, CA
For founding KidzLaunch to host camps and workshops to train children in entrepreneurship.
Special Awards - $500
Lara Cakir
John P. Stevens High School
Edison, NJ
For founding the social enterprise business Puppi Slimes to sell vats of squishable slime to benefit customers’ mental health and donating a share of her profits to charitable causes.
Saawan Duvvuri and Jayaa Bheemarasetti
University School of Nashville
Nashville, TN
For founding LiteratureDiversified to promote diversity in English and Social Studies curricula.
Archishma Marrapu and Anisha Marrapu
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Alexandria, VA
For founding STEMifyGirls to train women and girls in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM).
Jenna Reynolds
Humphreys High School
U.S. Army Garrison Humphreys, South Korea
For founding the Preparing Refugees in English Project in conjunction with her local YMCA to teach English to North Korean defectors.
Lauren Schroeder
Calamus-Wheatland High School
Wheatland, IA
For planting a large fruit and vegetable garden on her parents' farm and donating 7,025 pounds of produce worth $15,324 to eight local non-profits to feed the hungry.
Teacher Prizes
Teacher Grand Prize (Teacher of Grand Prize Winner) - $500
Katie Swinford
The Seven Hills School
Cincinnati, OH
Teacher Support Prize (Most Entries from One Teacher) - $500
Maria Kann
New Oxford Middle School
New Oxford, PA
Teacher Submission Prizes (Three or More Entries from One Teacher) - $250
Priscilla Deaver
Mount Logan Middle School
Logan, UT
Tremayne Gibson
Dr. Ronald E. McNair Academic High School
Jersey City, NJ
Joshua Lopes
Hanson Middle School
Hanson, MA
Michael Mason
Webster Groves High School
Webster Groves, MO
Brad Rice
Carleton Washburne School
Winnetka, IL
Amanda Rubenstein
AR Academics
San Juan Capistrano, CA