
At Crimson World School in Varanasi, Anjana Deva asks students to think beyond the next examination. Her public work connects academic effort with a more personal task: learning how to choose.
CAMS is built to produce mathematicians and scientists. Its Black Student Alliance works on a quieter engineering problem: how to make belonging sturdy enough to carry ambition.
At University of the Pacific, Delta Sigma Pi’s Lambda Mu Chapter puts friendship on the same calendar as professional practice. Its recruitment sequence offers a small, useful lesson in making introductions less awkward.
An engine overhaul. A college seminar on Filipino American identity. A student service corps born after a tragedy. In Daly City, Westmoor gives teenagers several ways to find their footing.
In California, students audit shops, study traffic and mentor younger peers. Friday Night Live has spent four decades turning youth prevention into work young people can own.

Before the degree and the policy roundtables, there was a Spokane teenager doing homework first and everything else second. A decade later, Kendra Canton's work still follows the same practical rule: earn your place, then use it to bring more people into the room.
Michael Mauro is a Harvard undergraduate economics student from Long Island who has turned campus life into a business education. He helps run marketing at Harvard Student Agencies, the world's largest student-run company, works as a consulting manager for its summer Academies, and co-presides over the Harvard Undergraduate Economics Association. He plays club ice hockey, is aiming for law school, and has collected passport stamps from two dozen countries along the way.
Generation Citizen is a national nonprofit that brings action-oriented civics education into middle and high school classrooms. Founded as a 2008 student project at Brown University, it partners with schools and districts to run a project-based curriculum in which students identify a local issue, research it, and take real civic action - then present their work at community 'Civics Day' showcases. The organization also advocates for state and federal policy that funds equitable civic learning. It has reached more than 250,000 students and, in recent years, serves roughly 25,000 students annually across 150+ schools in eight states.