The Barron Prize Honors Ten Young Award Recipients Who Have Made a Difference in the Lives of Others
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What do non-profit foundations have in common that save Orangutans, helps at-risk youth, and educate children on bees? They were all started by children. And they’re also the winners of this year’s Barron Prize for Young Heroes.
The Barron Prize was founded by leading children’s book author, T.A. Barron and aims to inspire young people and help them realize their potential for heroic greatness. His belief is that a hero is any person from any background who can make a positive difference in the world.
Every year, the Barron Prize honors ten young leaders, ages 8 to 18. Recipients each receive a cash stipend of $2500 to be applied to their education or service project.
This year’s winners range from 15 year-olds from Michigan who helped save endangered orangutans by removing certain palm oils from Girl Scout cookies, to a 16-year old girl from Alaska who drafted state legislature to incentivize home-owners to install energy-efficient home improvements, to an Indiana teen who spreads the good word about the peaceful honey bee to grade school children.
Available for interviews is leading children’s author T.A. Barron, best known for his New York Times Best Seller “Lost Years of Merlin” epic series, which has been praised as “riveting with a message of hope” by Jane Goodall and “rich and inventive…extraordinary” by Robert Redford, as well as multiple national and international award-winner.
Accompanying T.A. Barron are two winners from this years contest: Madison Vorva and Rhiannon Tomtishen, age 15, Michigan, whose project ORANGS (Orangutans Really Need Girl Scounts) succeeded in convincing Girl Scout cookie bakers to purchase palm oil only from sustainable growers, helping save the endangered orangutan, whose habitat is being destroyed by the production of palm oil.
For further information on the non-profit Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes, visit www.barronprize.org
