December 17, 2025 • 45 mins
The Gloria Barron Prize annually honors 25 outstanding young leaders (under age 20) who have made a significant positive impact on people, their communities, and the environment. Fifteen top winners each receive $10,000 to support their service work or higher education. Meet 2025 Barron Prize recipients Vivian Liu, Katy, TX, founder of nonprofit, Origami for Good, and Anisha Dhoot, Portland OR, student environmentalist/founder, Smart Carbon Recycling and KelpNutriBoost. www.barronprize.org
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Hello and welcome to Fearless Fabulous You. I am your host,
Melanie Young, and we are in the last month of
twenty twenty five, December seventeenth. I bet everybody's busy wrapping
up their year and planning for their holidays. I know
I am, and I love ending every year and starting
every year with something that will inspire you. It's been
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a tough year for a lot of people. The news
has been little and a lot of people are trying
to wrap their heads around lots of news that is
not good. But I'm here to give you some great
news that there is hope and our biggest investment should
be in young people because they are our future and
no one does a better job of that. Or there
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are many, but one a great shiny example is the
Gloria Baron Prize for Young Heroes. I love doing a
show every year to spotlight the recipients of the Gloria
Baron Prize for Young Heroes because this program annually honors
twenty five outstanding young leaders. We're talking about people who
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are still in high school, even sometimes grammar school, who
have made a significant positive impact on people, their communities,
and their environment. Fifteen of the top winners each received
ten thousand dollars to support their service work or higher education.
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The Gloria Burian Prize was named for an author of
children's books who was an environmentalist. Her son has carried
on this legacy. It is an annual prize, and if
you have interest in entering, or you have a son
or daughter who would like more information, I'm going to
give you that now before we introduce their guests in
a short video. The website is www dot Baron Prize,
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ba r Nprize dot org. We're going to have two
of the recipients on, vivianlu H sixteen of Katie Texas,
who is founder of Origami for Good and Anisia Dute
eight sixteen at the time of winning the maybe older
now Portland, Oregon, who is an environmentalist who has created
a lot of interesting programs to help conserve the environment,
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harvest seafood, and fight insecurity. We're going to have them
talk about their programs and their stories, but first I
want you to see a short video about the barn
price so you understand why this is a great program.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
The Gloria Baron Prize for Young Heroes celebrates twenty five
years of recognizing young people who are changing the world.
Here are some examples of our most recent winners. Inventing
a catalyst to improve bionic leaf technology, protecting freshwater ecosystems
including the Tennessee River, using her camera to raise money
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for multiple causes, discovering new personalized cancer treatments that precisely
target cancer genes. Planting native seeds and seedlings to increased biodiversity,
Fostering youth stewardship through tree planting initiatives, Recycling to fund
college tuition for youth in Hawaii.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
We need young heroes now more than ever. If young
people can save the world, but they need role models.
That's why the Baron Prize is so important.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
If you or someone you know is making a difference,
apply today by going to Barnprize dot org. That's Barrenprize
dot org.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Well, how moving is that? First of all, it's a
great video, and second to see and hear the great
recently departed Jane Goodall, one of the greatest conservationists in
history who we lost in twenty twenty five, talk about
how great the Baron Prize is. It's just inspiring. But
we're going to hear from two winners who are going
to really drive it home. Okay, So our first is,
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as I said, name is Vivian Lou She founded Origami
for Good. Now. Vivian's from Katie, Texas, and that's a
small town in a big state. She's I think still
age sixteen. And this is a global nonprofit that has
inspired more than seven thousand volunteers to create over Are
you ready for this eight hundred and twenty five thousand
pieces of origami for people in hospitals, nursing homes, children
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centers around the world. Vivian, Welcome to Fearless, Fabulous You.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Hi, thank you for having me.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Well, I used to do Oorgami's a little girl, I
was telling you before the show, And my parents went
to Japan and they travel alone. My whole family did
in Asia, and so ragami has always fascinated me. First,
for those who may not be familiar with the significance
of origami and how you were inspired, give us a
little backstory about your family and how origami was part
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of your growing up.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
So with origami, I was first introduced and inspired by
my grandmother, who taught me origami when I was very,
very young. And as I grew older, I realized how
something as simple as like this folded piece of orgami
could bring a lot of comfort, connection and joy, especially
to those people who felt isolated. And that realization, paired
with seeing a lot of mental health struggles and loneliness
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really amplified during the pandemic, pushed me to turn this
small tradition which was in my family and it was
kind of just a hobby that I had into a
global active care and service that volunteers that we have
can do.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Wow, that's incredible, And you know, orga me's just a
wonderful thing to do through hand. Didn't create little animals.
I saw a show a Houston TV segment and there
were so many I wish we had it, but how
did you get started? I mean, it's a great idea,
but how to take it from an idea to an
impact of movement?
Speaker 5 (06:26):
So I started Orgami for Good locally, so I would
just give out orogm to my friends. And then I
had this idea, like, what if we donate this to
like senior homes, nursing Kent centers, and like hospitals around
the world. And then I started doing that. I started
like emailing like a lot of facilities and asking if
I could donate my handmade rogam with messages inside. And
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then I have this friend from Michigan and she's actually
the co founder of Origami for Good, and we had
this idea, what if we expanded to chapters and allowed
people from all around the US and outside of the
US to create their own little Orgmi for Good clubs,
And then in those clubs, volunteers could like build orgam
me together, which is such a great bonding activity as well.
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And then with that they can send their made orgamy
to a bunch of facilities to help spread joy. And
that's just kind of how it spread and the way
that we blew up was primarily through social media. I
was very consistent with posting, and through that we've garnered
over forty thousand Instagram followers, and I think that's where
most of the growth came from.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I could probably use your help boosting my Instagram to
be honest. You know two hundred chapters serving fifty countries. Okay,
let's commit countries including Japan, India, United States. And you
also have built corporate partnerships. Let's talk about that because
let me tell you, I know how to build corporate partnerships.
I've done it as a profession. But are you still sixteen?
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Are you seventeen?
Speaker 5 (07:51):
I'm still sixteen my birthday and ap at sixteen, I
was just working on my driver's license.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
How did you know to do that? How did you
know that you can go power through partnership.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
I think it's always important to have like a strong
support system, and so me and my co founder we
were like, we were trying to look for ways that
we could secure fundraising and stuff. So we did a
lot of like emailing and just like straight up cold emailing,
and through that we were able to discover a lot
of partnership programs that were possible through Panda Express and
Krispy Kreme, which are some of the companies that we
partnered with with, and then through that we're able to
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do I think there's a partnership called like dozens for
I forgot what it was called, but we were able
to allow our volunteers to buy donuts as well, and
then a portion of the money would go towards our organization.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
That's great. I like Krispy Kreme. They make great you know,
it's all great. So you've done some TED talks about
this program. Can you give me an example of what
you've been talking about and how you're taking this further
to let people know that or Agami for Good is
a great thing.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Yeah. So through my TED talk, I was to talk
about those like small moments and how it's really just
important to start because I remember when I started this
organization my freshman year, I really, if I was being
completely honest with myself, I wasn't really sure exactly what
I was doing, and I just really emphasized the importance
of starting because you really can never.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Know what happened.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
Like if I predicted our organization would be this big,
that I could never be have predicted my freshman year.
So I just really emphasized the importance of, like, if
you have an idea, just go for it, because the
worst that can happen is that like it doesn't go anywhere,
but that doesn't harm me at all. Like the worst
you can do is try And I really just emphasized
that throughout my talk.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
How did you deal with rejection? And I can't imagine
everybody said yes, because you're sixteen, and I mean it's
hard enough to try to work at twenty one twenty
two when you're out of college, So how did you
deal with that?
Speaker 5 (09:50):
So we faced a lot of rejection initially when we
had our chapter idea, Like we started reaching out to
a lot of schools, and there was a lot of
like school principles who were like kind of skeptical about that,
I do you, like, why are you trying to expand
like your organization, Like what does that really do for us?
And we had to really practice like pitching ourselves and
also we had to really like we realized like, oh,
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we really need to create like a better system for this,
and then through that we're able to create our chapter system.
And we also have a team of a lot of
like youth executives that also work with us. It's not
just me and my co founder, Like we have a
team that works for our marketing. We have a team
that works for a volunteer department, and then our chapter department,
and also social media as well. So all of our
departments kind of just come together and through that we're
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able to establish like a standing and consistent nonprofit Navivian.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
You tell what school are you attending, Give your alma
mater or your school a shout out, and tell me
how you juggle this with your schools and your studies.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Yeah. So currently I attend the Texas Academy Math and Science,
which is a pre college program at the University of
North Texas. So I just take university classes full time.
And I remember I might old school it was actually
harder to juggle because I had to go to school
like full time. I had to go to school a
like six am in the morning and then come home
at like four pm. Because I also had like orchestra
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rehearsals because I also play an instrument. So I really
just I was busy all the time. But I think
joining this pre college program at the University of North
Texas because college classes are block scheduled, so I don't
have to go to school full time, so I have
a lot of extra time for myself to work on
org on me for good. And I think that really
like a way to make sure that all the tasks
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get done is that I try to plan things out
and I make sure that my deadlines are all known
and I keep a lot of sticky notes around my
computer on my desk, and I think that helps a
lot as well.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Wow, long days, I forgot the student life is long days.
So how did your family helping and supporting you and
what do they say about what you're doing.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Yeah, my dad is actually very helpful and he always
helps me, like if I have like a question, because
I remember when I was initially trying to establish the
five one three status for tax exception and also like
the bank account information and stuff. I asked him a
lot of questions on that and he was very helpful.
So I really love my family and I'm really glad
that they're able to support the work that I do.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Is your grandmother still with us?
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Yeah, she is still with me and she lives in
China though, but she always loves to hear updates about
how Orgon Me for Good is doing. And every time,
like there's like a radio session or TV show that
I go on, she's always the first to be watching it.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Oh, she must be so so proud, Vivian. So, do
you have a mentor that has been helping you?
Speaker 5 (12:37):
A lot of my teachers at my school are very
supportive as well. Obviously I started Orgon Me for Good locally,
so there's a lot of teachers that like were with
me when I first started, like my freshman year and
I was just hosting like orgon Me folding workshops at
my old school, and those those teachers are always very helpful.
And then also a lot of the partnerships that we do,
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I develop a lot of good relationships with like publishers,
and then also with just school facilities and facility like
people like people who work at a lot of the
facilities that we're parted with, and they love sending us
emails with updates on how it's going, and it just
makes me feel so good and it feels like we're
actually making an impact, which is so important.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Well, it's just fantastic. Now you are the recipient of
ten thousand dollars. How are you going to use that money.
Is that going to be for your education and for
services or have you even thought about it yet.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
I've really thought about this. Actually, the first thing that
I did when I even heard that, I went, I
was like, how will I like distribute ten thousand dollars?
It's such a huge sum of money. So yeah, so
we decided that it would be reinvested. Most of the
money would be reinvested directly into expanding access by covering
materials for under resource chapters. A lot of our chapters
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don't have the resources to buy a their Rogami supplies,
so we do want to provide funding for that, and
then also supporting international shipping and building stronger digital infrastructure
so students anywhere can start and run chapters more easily
and sustainably. And then also, I believe like a portion
of the money I also do want to go into
my college fund because college can be so expensive.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Oh very So, I'm curious you've mentioned supplies with Orgami.
Do you have to use certain types of paper?
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Really, no, you do not have to use certain types
of paper. There are paper that's like specific for Orgambi,
those like square shaped color sheets, but honestly, printer paper
any paper is fine, and you can fold a lot
of different shapes and animals and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
So it's a great way for anyone can get started
with oregame. You can take a tutorial for example, right, yes,
for sure. And your website is OREGONMI for Good dot
org dot com org. Okay, okay, great, And what's your
do you have a what's your social media profile?
Speaker 5 (14:48):
Yeah? Our Instagram is at Oregami dot for good And yeah, all.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Right, Vivia and I want you to hang on because
we're gonna I'm gonna introduce the second or and then
we're gonna have a little red parte between everybody. Okay,
So we've been talking with Vivian Lou, who is one
of two Baron Prize winners that I'm interviewing today. Each
has won ten thousand dollars to invest in their program
and our future education. They're both sixteen years old. Vivin
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Lou founded or Agami for Goodness from Katie Texas. She's
going to hang on, but I want to bring on
our second winner, Anisia Dude As I said, age sixteen,
she's from Portland, Oregon. She is an environmentalist who has
created a couple of initiatives to help harness. It's interesting
she's been using seafood and kelp. I happen to love
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eating it, so I can't wait to talk to her
about it. She created the smart Carbon recycling innovation, which
I'm going to ask her to explain because this is
really about environmental issues and she's she's more knowledgeable than me.
She created a really interesting project formula Help Nutrition Help
Nutrie Boost, which is a bio fertilizer, and she has
created through self teaching her help teaching coding, uh, something
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that is called Earth Environmentally Aware Revolutionary Technique for harvesting. Wow.
So Anisia do welcome, fearless fabulous shoe.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Hi, thank you for having me.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
It's great to have you.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
So we're going to go from orgami from good, which
I can you know because I get orgami, to something
that is so complexity but so important for our future,
which is being an environmental act of advocate and activists
and coming up with technology and existing resources to create
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new resources to help fight with farming, of fighting pollution,
dealing with food insecurity. Things are so important. So Anisha.
First of all, you were sixteen, what made you want
to go in this direction to use technology, including an
AI and really get into the environ mental aspect of things.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Yeah, so when I was around eleven years old, I
kept hearing debates in the news about whether climate change
was even real, and even at that age, it felt
really strange that like people were actually debating science. So
instead of just accepting what I heard, I decided to
test it for myself. So it all started with a
simple experiment using two two liter bottles, one filled with
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carbon dioxide and one filled with just oxygen, and I
basically like tracked how their temperature changed and.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
The rate of heating.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
And seeing the CO two bottle heat up so much
faster and stay hotter made like the reality of climate change,
Like it felt really real, and it basically like proved
that climate change is in fact real, And that experience
really sparked my curiosity and led me to research climate
science more deeply as I then became older and over
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time I realized that understanding the problem wasn't just enough,
like just researching wasn't actually going to make an impact,
So I wanted to be part of the actual solution.
So when researching climate solutions, I discovered kelp seaweed and
it's really like magical because it's ability. It has an
ability of not only absorbing large amounts of CO two,
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but also like improving soil.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Health and crop yields.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
And this connection between climate mitigation and food insecurity really
like inspired me, and that discovery really became the foundation
for my work and ultimately motivated me to start my initiative.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
So you live in Oregon and the whole West coast
is being impacted terribly by climate change. We don't call
it global warming. We call it climate change because it
is it could be anything. I live in Louisiana. I
live in a hurricane now, so I know about climate change.
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How did you go about I mean, you have you
have created technologies, You've created a formulation that is a
low cost biofertilizer. What was that? How did you go
about researching and developing your products?
Speaker 6 (19:12):
So basically, like I would just research online, Like after
doing that initial experiment, it really like sparked my curiosity
and I wanted to continue my research in that so
I just researched like more about climate change so that
I could like gain more information about it. And then
I after at one point, like I basically realized that
just researching about it wasn't actually going to make a difference,
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like anyone could do that. I wanted to be part
of like the actual solution and making an actual difference.
And that's when I started like researching ways that like
I could like we could actually mitigate climate change. And
I wanted to find like a thing that would actually
be like low costs, like available to everyone, be super abundant.
And that's when I came across kelp seaweeds, which is
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you can really find it anywhere, like if you just
go out to the coast, like it would be like
washed up, and many people don't actually you know this,
but like it has this amazing ability of like sequestering
carbon from the atmosphere into the oceans, and this is
not super well known, but it's super important. And they
grow super abundantly as well, so like there's no like
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problem of like it running out or anything. So that's
how all of this kind of started, and then I
just took that forward. I ended up making a kelp
seaweed based fertilizer called calb Nutrient Boost, which is low cost,
organic and kelp seaweed based, and it supports sustainable agriculture.
I also created earth AI, which is a crop recommendation
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machine learning model that makes farming a lot easier, a
lot better, especially for communities that don't have access to
a lot of resources and the soil may not be
super fertile. So both of those like working together will
really like make a difference.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
It's interesting I have, yeah, I won't have a food
and beverage background and nutrition and kelp seaweed is yes,
widely available, kind of like kudzu in the South, and
it's very nutritious. I went to a specially Food Association
show with Food Innovations. In fact, that Food Innovations Center
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is in Oregon, and they're doing a lot with seafood,
seaweed and sea nutrients because it's also nutrient dense to
help with finding waste, to deliver nutritious, low cost, nutritious
products to fight insecurity. You're doing this obviously the soils
and the water are greatly impacted by industrial waste and
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human waste. Something I think was interesting to caught my
eye with nutrient boost is that it's a carbon rich biochar.
You make it from the You also make it include
plastic waste and sewage plant biosolids. Okay, so I got
the I got the celt part, but you're also using waste,
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So how does that work because we all know plastic
is just prevalent in the waters right now.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
Yeah, So last summer I did this research internship with
the professor at the University of British Columbia and we
basically researched this chemical process called microwave catalytic pyrolysis, and
it converts biosolids and plastic waste into biochar and biofuel.
And at that time, my research mainly focused on biofuel,
which is basically a lot it's a lot more like greener,
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it's less carbon rich than regular fossil fuels. And after
that that kind of introduced me to biochart, which is
another byproduct of this process, and biochart is super carbon
rich and amazing for the soil. And after I kind
of discovered this, like I thought this really connected with
my project, so I kind of tested it and when
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combined with the KELB nutrient boost fertilizer that I created,
its efficiency increases to up to eighty percent. So that's
kind of how that all comes together and how all
of it comes together is basically like the biochart and
calve nutrient boosts fertilizers first applied into the ground, and
then the farmers or whoever's like planting can like monitor
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it for a bit and based off of that, like
you use the crop recommindation machine learning model to select
the best crop to grow. And then however, like the
plant is doing, like you can like increase or decrease
the amount of calve nutrient boots fertilizers that's put into
the ground. So it kind of all comes together as
like one like innovation.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
I'm curious, how are you getting this message out to
the farmers? Are you targeting small farmers large? I mean,
you know, farming is a broad term. It's a big industry,
a broad term. But there's small farmers, there's large farmers.
How are you getting the word out to them and
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to this major community that this is a great option,
and how are you scaling it?
Speaker 6 (23:58):
Yeah, so I'm targeted like communities who don't have a
lot of access to resources, and especially small farmers who
may also not have access to a lot of resources,
and especially in like parts of the world that don't
have like the best soil quality like soil may have
been like super degraded because like the KELB nutrient boost
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fertilizer and biochech can really help with that problem. And
I'm actually in the process of patenting my fertilizer. So
that's how I'm planning on scaling it. I want to
get it into like different stores and shops and on
the shelves so that many people can access it because
I think it's it can be it can make a
huge change because not only is it like low costs,
it's only fourteen dollars per gallon compared to like the
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fifty dollars plus chemical fertilizers that you find in like stores,
it's also super healthy, doesn't have any added chemicals or anything.
So I think it could be a really great option
and make a huge difference.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Wow, that's fairly low costs. It's it's and you can
create partnerships like Vivian, did you know. I think going
toward partnerships is a good way. Just don't give up equity.
Who's your mentor on this, who's working with you on this?
And do you have a mentor?
Speaker 6 (25:09):
So it kind of all started with the So I
was part of the three I'm Young Scientists Challenge and
I had this idea and my mentor during that competition
was doctor Rod Gupta, and he really helped like start
my project. He gave me the resources that I need,
connected me with people that could really help like take
my project further and make it real because it all
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started with just an idea. And after that, like after
the competition was over, I kept going with this project.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
I kept expanding it.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
And throughout the project, like I have met many mentors,
like for example, the professor of the University of British Columbia.
She helped me. She helped like introduce me to part
of my project, which was biochart. But overall this was
a pretty independent project. I actually tested the fertilizer in
my backyard. I didn't test in labs or things, so
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this project was pretty independent. But my parents have also
been a really big part and like really supported me
throughout the entire project because they really gave me the
like access to resources and stuff that I needed. But yeah,
most of this has been like independent and at my house.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Wow, So where do you go to school and how
do you juggle this project with your studies?
Speaker 6 (26:23):
I currently attend Westview High School. In Portland, Oregon, and
I like I kind of do this like out of school,
like I have. I'mlike Vivian, like I have like a normal,
like school schedule. I have to be there from like
the morning to like four pm. So it is kind
of hard because like I need to like juggle school
work and the project as well. But after school, like
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I take a lot of my time to work on
this project and take it further. I'm actually in the
process of creating a nonprofit right now, and as part
of that nonprofit, like I'm also going to elementary schools
talking about climate change climate education, which isn't really talked about.
I'm also taking time to fundraise for local food banks.
So yeah, it is a lot to juggle, but like,
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I think it is working out, and I'm able to
like kind of split my time between schoolwork and the project.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
So what in doing this? You know, like Vivian talked
about how orgami has been really great for dealing with
social isolation. Social isolation is a serious problem in the
United States right now and elsewhere, not just here. But
let's just focus which is impacting the mental health and
it and and COVID did not help, uh, and it has.
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I don't think people have healed, and you know it
gets worse. We all know that that is a big problem.
Climate change, similarly, is a major problem and challenge in
the United States, particularly with people who don't believe it
actually exists versus people who do. I know it does.
We all know it does, and we all know that
(27:59):
unless something is done, it's going to get worse. Same
with social isolation. What in terms of and I'm going
to open this up, so Anisha, what would as you
dove into this, what were some of the surprise what
surprised you most about your findings that you were like, wow,
(28:21):
I had no idea.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
So the thing that like surprised me the most was
when I came across kelp seaweeds, because I genuinely like
did not know that I had the ability of sequestering
carbon into the ocean. And I don't think many people
are aware of this property either, because we just see
a wash up on beaches and we're like, oh my god,
like I want to stay away from it. At least
that was how it was for me, Like it doesn't
look the most appealing and you kind of just want
(28:44):
to stay away from it, but it actually has these
like super magical like abilities, and I wasn't aware of
this at all, and when I came across it, like,
I was super surprised. I was also surprised with the
amount of people who aren't aware that climate change is
in fact real. Many people don't think it is real,
and like scientists predict that like if we don't go
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back to like that zero like twenty fifty, like there
is no going back, like it's just going to continue
to get worse and we won't be able to do
anything about it. So I think it is super important
to bring awareness to climate change. But yeah, those are
the two things that surprise me the most.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
It's interesting. I travel a lot in my work in
the winning business, and the vineyards are all being you know,
it's all agriculture and everybody's being impacted. And it's not
just temperature. It's it's also the condition of the soil.
It's the litter, the litter, the garbage I have seen
(29:41):
I can't I won't point out which I'm shocked that
there are people in the world that will talk the
talk about climate change and then toss all their litter
in a mound a mountain that you're like, how did
this happen? Or they'll you know, still use plastic straws.
(30:03):
They'll go into the water and reef with bad you know,
sunscreen that hurts the reefs. I've seen so much of
this and as skip. But you know, I go to
Hawaii a lot and I see the ocean reefs are
a mess, a mess, uh, And it's seemed to help
a lot of people. Just think that's all like ocean trash.
It's it's natural occurring substance in the ocean. And the
(30:24):
fact that you're doing something with it to regenerate it,
because the term is regenerative, is amazing, just amazing, really incredible. So,
do you have a website or social media to share
with my listeners and viewers.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
I don't have a website as of now, but if
you want to like follow my work and ongoing projects,
you can follow my instagram, which is aniche do.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Yeah, okay, so that's a niche to do it. And
just so everybody knows, uh, well, it's on the screen,
your name is on the screen, so you can say
the spelling.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
Yea.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
I'm gonna open this up a little bit between you
with all of your little repartee you're both looking at college.
You know that college is very expensive. Now, I know
you're probably thinking about it. You haven't applied what And
we'll start with Vivian, what would you like you know,
(31:21):
what are you planning to study, even though that can
always change, and what would you like to do in
the future If you have any idea yet, Vivia, we'll
start with you.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
Yeah, so right now at the University of North Texas,
I'm a mechanical engineering track, so I take mechanical engineering classes,
but I also want to use engineering for social work
as well, like with for Origami for Good. So I'm
really passionate about youth and service and everyone being a
volunteer and doing good for the world. So I definitely
(31:52):
want to continue my social work as well and grow
orgon me for good alongside my studies. And I've thought
about this a lot, and I have a lot of
ideas of how I want to pass on or got
me for good because when I do get to college,
I do realize that I will get busier. So I
have a lot of people in mind that I know
will take it care or got me for good when
(32:13):
I do go to college.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
That's great, Okay, Anisha what about you.
Speaker 6 (32:18):
Yeah, so after graduation, I plan to pursue a degree
in engineering. That's how it is as of now, and
my goal is to apply technology and research to solve
environmental and climate related challenges. I definitely want to take
my project even further and make it a lot bigger.
I plan on like making my nonprofit official as well
(32:40):
in the future, alongside like patenting my fertilizer and actually
getting it to the people who could really use it,
alongside the earth AI machine learning model. So yeah, that's
my plan for the future.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Okay, So I'm gonna I'm gonna alternate starting so that
the second answer is it goes gets the first question
doesn't get as much time to think about the answer
as the next person. So, Anita, what woman entrepreneur or
social impact whatever, who living or dad female has inspired
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you the most own and why?
Speaker 6 (33:27):
I would say Greta Thunberg because she is super related
to climate change, Like she has really brought awareness to
climate change as well, and she shows how like one
person's curiosity and conviction can really grow into a global movement.
And she began with just like asking questions and like
taking small, like small consistent action. But her like impact
(33:51):
that she has made on the entire world has really
like demonstrated the power of like persistence and advocacy and leadership.
And I think I respect her a lot.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
She's you know, she's amazing, just amazing, Okay, Vivian who
and a woman living her dad entrepreneur social impact hilanthemis
inspires you in mine.
Speaker 5 (34:17):
I really respect Princess Diana because she showed up physically
when a lot of people stayed kind of distant. So
she shook hands with like AIDS patients when people were
afraid to touch them, and walk through active land mindfields
to force global attention. And I really just admire the
way she used her fame and platform responsibility, like responsibly
(34:39):
and to showcase like causes that need to be seen.
And I think that trait is just so admirable in
a person.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
You know, Princess Diana was interesting example because she dealt
with her own self doubt and demons as we know,
and difficulties insecurities. Really as the wife of at the
time Prince Charles, there was you know, a lot of
issues in the marriage. There were a lot of issues
(35:08):
having to live to much higher standards than we're all
used to and I think a lot of what she
did by becoming the Princess of the people helped her
as well as the people. She felt she could create
something that was purposeful but also gave her a sense
of purpose because she was like living in a very
(35:29):
isolated situation. You would think she wasn't, but she was.
So it's an interesting example because really what you're doing
with oregonomy and good is helping people that maybe they
don't have a sense of joy, or they feel isolated,
or they don't have a purpose, and a simple thing
like creating something and giving it to someone else connecting
(35:51):
can help with that. It's an interesting example. And Greta
girl was amazing. I think did she like like I
don't know, she was somewhere fighting with I don't know,
she was somewhere in the world that they were like
pirates invaded or boat or something. I'm like, oh my god,
she's like a hero. Great examples, both great examples of
very different people from different backgrounds. And I think that's
(36:13):
important here because with the Baron Prize, you don't have
to your background doesn't matter. Your background doesn't matter, it's
what your purpose is and what you're doing. So How
did you each learn about the Baron Prize. I'm curious
(36:36):
was there a winner that inspired you? Did you hear
about it? Vivian, I'll start with you.
Speaker 5 (36:41):
I learned about the Baron Prize through a past winner,
esther Bonnie, and she talked to me about the Baron
Prize because I was like talking to her about her
nonprofit organization or her organization Nature Natives, and she told
me about the Baron Prize and just like, this is
like a really good prize and I believe that your
organization suits it really well. And so she's actually who
(37:03):
inspired me to ply. And then after that, I did
a lot of research about the Baron Prize, and obviously
I read through a bunch of like the winner bios
and stuff, and after reading thrills like there's no way
I'm going to win, and after applying and getting the call,
the fact that I was a Baron Prize recipient was
just so crazy.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
Did you have to go and do an interview or
anything or just submit a packet?
Speaker 5 (37:25):
I didn't have to go through an interview. Yeah, I
just submitted. It's interesting.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
I'm I'm trying to enter my own podcasts and I
have like, oh, I'm never gonna win my bother. So
you know, as I think you said you got to
do it, and one of you said you got to
just get out and do it. You can't just say,
oh no, I can't do it. If I don't do it,
If you don't try, you don't have an option. You
don't have a chance. So get out there and enter
(37:51):
that contest. Of those awards are submitted and there's extra
work to do it, but just do it. I'm talking
to myself as well as everybody else. A niche, How
did you learn about the Baron Prize? Did you learn
it from a winner? Reading about it? Tell me your
journey into becoming a Baron Prize winner.
Speaker 5 (38:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (38:09):
So the way that I learned about the Baron Prize
was really similar to Vivian's way of learning about it.
I learned about it through past winners as well. People
from my school have won the Baron Prize alongside like
someone I went to the Three of Young Scientists Challenge
like he won as well him and Buckley, So I
kind of learned about it through them. And I also
(38:31):
read through all the bials and I was like, there's
no way I'm gonna win either, it was really similar
to like Vivian, but I did end up winning and
that was super surprising.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
I was super happy.
Speaker 6 (38:41):
I'm still super grateful, And yeah, I definitely recommend applying
to it because you never know, Like, yeah, you just
never know, So like definitely like taking that step to
actually like apply and stuff like it could.
Speaker 5 (38:55):
Really be a difference.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Yeah, yeah, no, absolutely, and it takes time, but just
set aside the time. So since winning the Baron Prize,
which is the twenty twenty five prize, it's fairly recent
because I think it was announced towards the last part
of twenty twenty five. How what has happened in your life?
How was your life change or how do you see
it changing? What was something that happened I need sh
(39:16):
I'll start with you.
Speaker 5 (39:19):
A way that has changed.
Speaker 6 (39:20):
Like my project has definitely received a lot more recognition
than it has like before, Like everyone who's reaching out
and like learning about my project. I feel like it's
making a bigger impact than it did before winning the
Baron Prize, So I think that's been a huge thing,
along with like using the actual grant and like making
(39:41):
my project even bigger than it was, like getting the
products to like people who actually need it, like growing
my nonprofit initiative as well, and going to more schools
and stuff like that. Getting the resources for the kids
at different schools, like a lot has definitely changed and
in a really good way.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Yeah, that's great, what about you, Vivian.
Speaker 5 (40:04):
For me, ever since I won the Baron Prize, the
money has been really helpful for like funding our more
underserved chapters and allowing them to hold more workshops and
stuff like that. And then also the Baron Prize as well,
it's allowed me to meet other Baron Prize winners like
Anisha and they have reached out to for partnerships and
stuff like that, So I think that's super cool, like
(40:24):
the Baron Prize network as well. And since the Baron Prize,
have also gotten an article written on Scholastic Magazines, which
is super full circle for me because I've been reading
Scholastic ever since I was very little and I remember
going to the Scholastic book fairs and stuff like that,
so I think that has been very cool as well.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
That's so fantastic, you know. I think you both are
great examples of hope in a time when a lot
of people are losing hope. And I think our message
from you to me, to everybody is you know you
got to get out there. And if you have an idea,
act on it. Don't say it will never happen. Don't
talk yourself out of not taking action, whether it's advocacy,
(41:08):
starting a project, changing jobs, just applying for a Baron Price,
just do it because if you don't inaction doesn't do anything.
And even if you're rejected, at least you tried and
it builds confidence. And I'm sure that the Baron Prize
(41:29):
was named after Gloria Baron, who was a child. She
wrote children's books. As an author myself, you get a
lot of rejection, so she probably faced rejection. I mean
everybody is going to face it. You fail forward, if
you fail for project Douse, you fail forward and take
it and learn from their mistakes and go on. The
key is to do it. And I think you both
are examples of young women the great future who are
(41:51):
doing amazing things now. And I think that you can
do that any agen stage of her life. Again, we
have been talking with two of the twenty twenty five
Gloria Baron Price Award winners for Young Heroes. They've each
won ten thousand dollars to put against invest in their
projects or their future education. I'm going to sum up
(42:14):
this show. It's Barnprize dot Org. I'm going to sum
up a show, the show with a really great quote
from Ta Baron, whose mother was Gloria Barn and how
he has perpetuated and continues her legacy in by doing good.
He says, nothing is more inspiring than stories about heroic
people who have truly made a difference to the world.
(42:37):
And we need our heroes today now more than ever.
Not celebrities, but heroes, real people whose character can inspire us.
Speaker 6 (42:46):
All.
Speaker 3 (42:47):
That is the purpose of the Baron Price to shine
a spotlight these amazing people so their stories will inspire others.
I really hope that your story is Vivian and Anisia
will inspire anyone listening. There may be someone today and
I was thinking about this without the show, I don't
you know who's listening, who's watching right now? It's a
live show. I don't know. But the show continues on
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over sixty five podcast channels and permanently on YouTube and
those channels. There may be someone who is going to
listen to the show or watch it. Maybe they're having
a bad day, maybe they're having some self doubt. Maybe
they're just not sure what they're gonna do next. Maybe
they saw the news. Maybe just maybe they're gonna hear
(43:28):
your stories and watch this show and say, I have hope,
I'm gonna get back up and I'm gonna go forward
and do something. Because that's really what it's about, right,
And I think that's the message of this show. That's
the message of you, that's the message of the Baron
Price that it can be done at any age. You're
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never too old, you're never too young, you're never too uneducated.
At Menesia, you taught yourself coding. I mean, you know
your grand mother taught you. I mean everyone has a
gift and everyone has potential. You just have to reach
deep down and believe in yourself. And as I always
(44:11):
like to say, I created this show for that reason
because it helps me also remember that you can be
fearless and fabulous even if you have a bad day.
But I want everybody to have a good day by
watching this show and listening to these amazing people and
checking out the other stories on Barrenprice dot org of
amazing young people who are doing things to inspire others
(44:32):
and make a difference in the world. And if you're
thinking about that today, I want to end this show
with my message, which I always say, is that you
have the capacity in life to live any way you want.
Always choose to live life on your terms and not
by the standards other people set for you that may
or may not be to your best interest. Always act
(44:53):
upon the good and realize that you can define and
redefine yourself over you the years, and when you do
choose to live life on your terms, always choose to
be fearless and fabulous. Thank you.
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Hello and welcome to Fearless Fabulous You. I am your host,
Melanie Young, and we are in the last month of
twenty twenty five, December seventeenth. I bet everybody's busy wrapping
up their year and planning for their holidays. I know
I am, and I love ending every year and starting
every year with something that will inspire you. It's been
(01:02):
a tough year for a lot of people. The news
has been little and a lot of people are trying
to wrap their heads around lots of news that is
not good. But I'm here to give you some great
news that there is hope and our biggest investment should
be in young people because they are our future and
no one does a better job of that. Or there
(01:23):
are many, but one a great shiny example is the
Gloria Baron Prize for Young Heroes. I love doing a
show every year to spotlight the recipients of the Gloria
Baron Prize for Young Heroes because this program annually honors
twenty five outstanding young leaders. We're talking about people who
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are still in high school, even sometimes grammar school, who
have made a significant positive impact on people, their communities,
and their environment. Fifteen of the top winners each received
ten thousand dollars to support their service work or higher education.
(02:05):
The Gloria Burian Prize was named for an author of
children's books who was an environmentalist. Her son has carried
on this legacy. It is an annual prize, and if
you have interest in entering, or you have a son
or daughter who would like more information, I'm going to
give you that now before we introduce their guests in
a short video. The website is www dot Baron Prize,
(02:27):
ba r Nprize dot org. We're going to have two
of the recipients on, vivianlu H sixteen of Katie Texas,
who is founder of Origami for Good and Anisia Dute
eight sixteen at the time of winning the maybe older
now Portland, Oregon, who is an environmentalist who has created
a lot of interesting programs to help conserve the environment,
(02:53):
harvest seafood, and fight insecurity. We're going to have them
talk about their programs and their stories, but first I
want you to see a short video about the barn
price so you understand why this is a great program.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
The Gloria Baron Prize for Young Heroes celebrates twenty five
years of recognizing young people who are changing the world.
Here are some examples of our most recent winners. Inventing
a catalyst to improve bionic leaf technology, protecting freshwater ecosystems
including the Tennessee River, using her camera to raise money
(03:29):
for multiple causes, discovering new personalized cancer treatments that precisely
target cancer genes. Planting native seeds and seedlings to increased biodiversity,
Fostering youth stewardship through tree planting initiatives, Recycling to fund
college tuition for youth in Hawaii.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
We need young heroes now more than ever. If young
people can save the world, but they need role models.
That's why the Baron Prize is so important.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
If you or someone you know is making a difference,
apply today by going to Barnprize dot org. That's Barrenprize
dot org.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Well, how moving is that? First of all, it's a
great video, and second to see and hear the great
recently departed Jane Goodall, one of the greatest conservationists in
history who we lost in twenty twenty five, talk about
how great the Baron Prize is. It's just inspiring. But
we're going to hear from two winners who are going
to really drive it home. Okay, So our first is,
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as I said, name is Vivian Lou She founded Origami
for Good. Now. Vivian's from Katie, Texas, and that's a
small town in a big state. She's I think still
age sixteen. And this is a global nonprofit that has
inspired more than seven thousand volunteers to create over Are
you ready for this eight hundred and twenty five thousand
pieces of origami for people in hospitals, nursing homes, children
(04:54):
centers around the world. Vivian, Welcome to Fearless, Fabulous You.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Hi, thank you for having me.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Well, I used to do Oorgami's a little girl, I
was telling you before the show, And my parents went
to Japan and they travel alone. My whole family did
in Asia, and so ragami has always fascinated me. First,
for those who may not be familiar with the significance
of origami and how you were inspired, give us a
little backstory about your family and how origami was part
(05:23):
of your growing up.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
So with origami, I was first introduced and inspired by
my grandmother, who taught me origami when I was very,
very young. And as I grew older, I realized how
something as simple as like this folded piece of orgami
could bring a lot of comfort, connection and joy, especially
to those people who felt isolated. And that realization, paired
with seeing a lot of mental health struggles and loneliness
(05:52):
really amplified during the pandemic, pushed me to turn this
small tradition which was in my family and it was
kind of just a hobby that I had into a
global active care and service that volunteers that we have
can do.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Wow, that's incredible, And you know, orga me's just a
wonderful thing to do through hand. Didn't create little animals.
I saw a show a Houston TV segment and there
were so many I wish we had it, but how
did you get started? I mean, it's a great idea,
but how to take it from an idea to an
impact of movement?
Speaker 5 (06:26):
So I started Orgami for Good locally, so I would
just give out orogm to my friends. And then I
had this idea, like, what if we donate this to
like senior homes, nursing Kent centers, and like hospitals around
the world. And then I started doing that. I started
like emailing like a lot of facilities and asking if
I could donate my handmade rogam with messages inside. And
(06:47):
then I have this friend from Michigan and she's actually
the co founder of Origami for Good, and we had
this idea, what if we expanded to chapters and allowed
people from all around the US and outside of the
US to create their own little Orgmi for Good clubs,
And then in those clubs, volunteers could like build orgam
me together, which is such a great bonding activity as well.
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And then with that they can send their made orgamy
to a bunch of facilities to help spread joy. And
that's just kind of how it spread and the way
that we blew up was primarily through social media. I
was very consistent with posting, and through that we've garnered
over forty thousand Instagram followers, and I think that's where
most of the growth came from.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I could probably use your help boosting my Instagram to
be honest. You know two hundred chapters serving fifty countries. Okay,
let's commit countries including Japan, India, United States. And you
also have built corporate partnerships. Let's talk about that because
let me tell you, I know how to build corporate partnerships.
I've done it as a profession. But are you still sixteen?
(07:49):
Are you seventeen?
Speaker 5 (07:51):
I'm still sixteen my birthday and ap at sixteen, I
was just working on my driver's license.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
How did you know to do that? How did you
know that you can go power through partnership.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
I think it's always important to have like a strong
support system, and so me and my co founder we
were like, we were trying to look for ways that
we could secure fundraising and stuff. So we did a
lot of like emailing and just like straight up cold emailing,
and through that we were able to discover a lot
of partnership programs that were possible through Panda Express and
Krispy Kreme, which are some of the companies that we
partnered with with, and then through that we're able to
(08:25):
do I think there's a partnership called like dozens for
I forgot what it was called, but we were able
to allow our volunteers to buy donuts as well, and
then a portion of the money would go towards our organization.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
That's great. I like Krispy Kreme. They make great you know,
it's all great. So you've done some TED talks about
this program. Can you give me an example of what
you've been talking about and how you're taking this further
to let people know that or Agami for Good is
a great thing.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Yeah. So through my TED talk, I was to talk
about those like small moments and how it's really just
important to start because I remember when I started this
organization my freshman year, I really, if I was being
completely honest with myself, I wasn't really sure exactly what
I was doing, and I just really emphasized the importance
of starting because you really can never.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Know what happened.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
Like if I predicted our organization would be this big,
that I could never be have predicted my freshman year.
So I just really emphasized the importance of, like, if
you have an idea, just go for it, because the
worst that can happen is that like it doesn't go anywhere,
but that doesn't harm me at all. Like the worst
you can do is try And I really just emphasized
that throughout my talk.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
How did you deal with rejection? And I can't imagine
everybody said yes, because you're sixteen, and I mean it's
hard enough to try to work at twenty one twenty
two when you're out of college, So how did you
deal with that?
Speaker 5 (09:50):
So we faced a lot of rejection initially when we
had our chapter idea, Like we started reaching out to
a lot of schools, and there was a lot of
like school principles who were like kind of skeptical about that,
I do you, like, why are you trying to expand
like your organization, Like what does that really do for us?
And we had to really practice like pitching ourselves and
also we had to really like we realized like, oh,
(10:11):
we really need to create like a better system for this,
and then through that we're able to create our chapter system.
And we also have a team of a lot of
like youth executives that also work with us. It's not
just me and my co founder, Like we have a
team that works for our marketing. We have a team
that works for a volunteer department, and then our chapter department,
and also social media as well. So all of our
departments kind of just come together and through that we're
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able to establish like a standing and consistent nonprofit Navivian.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
You tell what school are you attending, Give your alma
mater or your school a shout out, and tell me
how you juggle this with your schools and your studies.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Yeah. So currently I attend the Texas Academy Math and Science,
which is a pre college program at the University of
North Texas. So I just take university classes full time.
And I remember I might old school it was actually
harder to juggle because I had to go to school
like full time. I had to go to school a
like six am in the morning and then come home
at like four pm. Because I also had like orchestra
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rehearsals because I also play an instrument. So I really
just I was busy all the time. But I think
joining this pre college program at the University of North
Texas because college classes are block scheduled, so I don't
have to go to school full time, so I have
a lot of extra time for myself to work on
org on me for good. And I think that really
like a way to make sure that all the tasks
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get done is that I try to plan things out
and I make sure that my deadlines are all known
and I keep a lot of sticky notes around my
computer on my desk, and I think that helps a
lot as well.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Wow, long days, I forgot the student life is long days.
So how did your family helping and supporting you and
what do they say about what you're doing.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Yeah, my dad is actually very helpful and he always
helps me, like if I have like a question, because
I remember when I was initially trying to establish the
five one three status for tax exception and also like
the bank account information and stuff. I asked him a
lot of questions on that and he was very helpful.
So I really love my family and I'm really glad
that they're able to support the work that I do.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Is your grandmother still with us?
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Yeah, she is still with me and she lives in
China though, but she always loves to hear updates about
how Orgon Me for Good is doing. And every time,
like there's like a radio session or TV show that
I go on, she's always the first to be watching it.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Oh, she must be so so proud, Vivian. So, do
you have a mentor that has been helping you?
Speaker 5 (12:37):
A lot of my teachers at my school are very
supportive as well. Obviously I started Orgon Me for Good locally,
so there's a lot of teachers that like were with
me when I first started, like my freshman year and
I was just hosting like orgon Me folding workshops at
my old school, and those those teachers are always very helpful.
And then also a lot of the partnerships that we do,
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I develop a lot of good relationships with like publishers,
and then also with just school facilities and facility like
people like people who work at a lot of the
facilities that we're parted with, and they love sending us
emails with updates on how it's going, and it just
makes me feel so good and it feels like we're
actually making an impact, which is so important.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Well, it's just fantastic. Now you are the recipient of
ten thousand dollars. How are you going to use that money.
Is that going to be for your education and for
services or have you even thought about it yet.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
I've really thought about this. Actually, the first thing that
I did when I even heard that, I went, I
was like, how will I like distribute ten thousand dollars?
It's such a huge sum of money. So yeah, so
we decided that it would be reinvested. Most of the
money would be reinvested directly into expanding access by covering
materials for under resource chapters. A lot of our chapters
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don't have the resources to buy a their Rogami supplies,
so we do want to provide funding for that, and
then also supporting international shipping and building stronger digital infrastructure
so students anywhere can start and run chapters more easily
and sustainably. And then also, I believe like a portion
of the money I also do want to go into
my college fund because college can be so expensive.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Oh very So, I'm curious you've mentioned supplies with Orgami.
Do you have to use certain types of paper?
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Really, no, you do not have to use certain types
of paper. There are paper that's like specific for Orgambi,
those like square shaped color sheets, but honestly, printer paper
any paper is fine, and you can fold a lot
of different shapes and animals and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
So it's a great way for anyone can get started
with oregame. You can take a tutorial for example, right, yes,
for sure. And your website is OREGONMI for Good dot
org dot com org. Okay, okay, great, And what's your
do you have a what's your social media profile?
Speaker 5 (14:48):
Yeah? Our Instagram is at Oregami dot for good And yeah, all.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Right, Vivia and I want you to hang on because
we're gonna I'm gonna introduce the second or and then
we're gonna have a little red parte between everybody. Okay,
So we've been talking with Vivian Lou, who is one
of two Baron Prize winners that I'm interviewing today. Each
has won ten thousand dollars to invest in their program
and our future education. They're both sixteen years old. Vivin
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Lou founded or Agami for Goodness from Katie Texas. She's
going to hang on, but I want to bring on
our second winner, Anisia Dude As I said, age sixteen,
she's from Portland, Oregon. She is an environmentalist who has
created a couple of initiatives to help harness. It's interesting
she's been using seafood and kelp. I happen to love
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eating it, so I can't wait to talk to her
about it. She created the smart Carbon recycling innovation, which
I'm going to ask her to explain because this is
really about environmental issues and she's she's more knowledgeable than me.
She created a really interesting project formula Help Nutrition Help
Nutrie Boost, which is a bio fertilizer, and she has
created through self teaching her help teaching coding, uh, something
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that is called Earth Environmentally Aware Revolutionary Technique for harvesting. Wow.
So Anisia do welcome, fearless fabulous shoe.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Hi, thank you for having me.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
It's great to have you.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
So we're going to go from orgami from good, which
I can you know because I get orgami, to something
that is so complexity but so important for our future,
which is being an environmental act of advocate and activists
and coming up with technology and existing resources to create
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new resources to help fight with farming, of fighting pollution,
dealing with food insecurity. Things are so important. So Anisha.
First of all, you were sixteen, what made you want
to go in this direction to use technology, including an
AI and really get into the environ mental aspect of things.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Yeah, so when I was around eleven years old, I
kept hearing debates in the news about whether climate change
was even real, and even at that age, it felt
really strange that like people were actually debating science. So
instead of just accepting what I heard, I decided to
test it for myself. So it all started with a
simple experiment using two two liter bottles, one filled with
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carbon dioxide and one filled with just oxygen, and I
basically like tracked how their temperature changed and.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
The rate of heating.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
And seeing the CO two bottle heat up so much
faster and stay hotter made like the reality of climate change,
Like it felt really real, and it basically like proved
that climate change is in fact real, And that experience
really sparked my curiosity and led me to research climate
science more deeply as I then became older and over
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time I realized that understanding the problem wasn't just enough,
like just researching wasn't actually going to make an impact,
So I wanted to be part of the actual solution.
So when researching climate solutions, I discovered kelp seaweed and
it's really like magical because it's ability. It has an
ability of not only absorbing large amounts of CO two,
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but also like improving soil.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Health and crop yields.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
And this connection between climate mitigation and food insecurity really
like inspired me, and that discovery really became the foundation
for my work and ultimately motivated me to start my initiative.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
So you live in Oregon and the whole West coast
is being impacted terribly by climate change. We don't call
it global warming. We call it climate change because it
is it could be anything. I live in Louisiana. I
live in a hurricane now, so I know about climate change.
(18:54):
How did you go about I mean, you have you
have created technologies, You've created a formulation that is a
low cost biofertilizer. What was that? How did you go
about researching and developing your products?
Speaker 6 (19:12):
So basically, like I would just research online, Like after
doing that initial experiment, it really like sparked my curiosity
and I wanted to continue my research in that so
I just researched like more about climate change so that
I could like gain more information about it. And then
I after at one point, like I basically realized that
just researching about it wasn't actually going to make a difference,
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like anyone could do that. I wanted to be part
of like the actual solution and making an actual difference.
And that's when I started like researching ways that like
I could like we could actually mitigate climate change. And
I wanted to find like a thing that would actually
be like low costs, like available to everyone, be super abundant.
And that's when I came across kelp seaweeds, which is
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you can really find it anywhere, like if you just
go out to the coast, like it would be like
washed up, and many people don't actually you know this,
but like it has this amazing ability of like sequestering
carbon from the atmosphere into the oceans, and this is
not super well known, but it's super important. And they
grow super abundantly as well, so like there's no like
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problem of like it running out or anything. So that's
how all of this kind of started, and then I
just took that forward. I ended up making a kelp
seaweed based fertilizer called calb Nutrient Boost, which is low cost,
organic and kelp seaweed based, and it supports sustainable agriculture.
I also created earth AI, which is a crop recommendation
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machine learning model that makes farming a lot easier, a
lot better, especially for communities that don't have access to
a lot of resources and the soil may not be
super fertile. So both of those like working together will
really like make a difference.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
It's interesting I have, yeah, I won't have a food
and beverage background and nutrition and kelp seaweed is yes,
widely available, kind of like kudzu in the South, and
it's very nutritious. I went to a specially Food Association
show with Food Innovations. In fact, that Food Innovations Center
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is in Oregon, and they're doing a lot with seafood,
seaweed and sea nutrients because it's also nutrient dense to
help with finding waste, to deliver nutritious, low cost, nutritious
products to fight insecurity. You're doing this obviously the soils
and the water are greatly impacted by industrial waste and
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human waste. Something I think was interesting to caught my
eye with nutrient boost is that it's a carbon rich biochar.
You make it from the You also make it include
plastic waste and sewage plant biosolids. Okay, so I got
the I got the celt part, but you're also using waste,
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So how does that work because we all know plastic
is just prevalent in the waters right now.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
Yeah, So last summer I did this research internship with
the professor at the University of British Columbia and we
basically researched this chemical process called microwave catalytic pyrolysis, and
it converts biosolids and plastic waste into biochar and biofuel.
And at that time, my research mainly focused on biofuel,
which is basically a lot it's a lot more like greener,
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it's less carbon rich than regular fossil fuels. And after
that that kind of introduced me to biochart, which is
another byproduct of this process, and biochart is super carbon
rich and amazing for the soil. And after I kind
of discovered this, like I thought this really connected with
my project, so I kind of tested it and when
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combined with the KELB nutrient boost fertilizer that I created,
its efficiency increases to up to eighty percent. So that's
kind of how that all comes together and how all
of it comes together is basically like the biochart and
calve nutrient boosts fertilizers first applied into the ground, and
then the farmers or whoever's like planting can like monitor
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it for a bit and based off of that, like
you use the crop recommindation machine learning model to select
the best crop to grow. And then however, like the
plant is doing, like you can like increase or decrease
the amount of calve nutrient boots fertilizers that's put into
the ground. So it kind of all comes together as
like one like innovation.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
I'm curious, how are you getting this message out to
the farmers? Are you targeting small farmers large? I mean,
you know, farming is a broad term. It's a big industry,
a broad term. But there's small farmers, there's large farmers.
How are you getting the word out to them and
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to this major community that this is a great option,
and how are you scaling it?
Speaker 6 (23:58):
Yeah, so I'm targeted like communities who don't have a
lot of access to resources, and especially small farmers who
may also not have access to a lot of resources,
and especially in like parts of the world that don't
have like the best soil quality like soil may have
been like super degraded because like the KELB nutrient boost
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fertilizer and biochech can really help with that problem. And
I'm actually in the process of patenting my fertilizer. So
that's how I'm planning on scaling it. I want to
get it into like different stores and shops and on
the shelves so that many people can access it because
I think it's it can be it can make a
huge change because not only is it like low costs,
it's only fourteen dollars per gallon compared to like the
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fifty dollars plus chemical fertilizers that you find in like stores,
it's also super healthy, doesn't have any added chemicals or anything.
So I think it could be a really great option
and make a huge difference.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Wow, that's fairly low costs. It's it's and you can
create partnerships like Vivian, did you know. I think going
toward partnerships is a good way. Just don't give up equity.
Who's your mentor on this, who's working with you on this?
And do you have a mentor?
Speaker 6 (25:09):
So it kind of all started with the So I
was part of the three I'm Young Scientists Challenge and
I had this idea and my mentor during that competition
was doctor Rod Gupta, and he really helped like start
my project. He gave me the resources that I need,
connected me with people that could really help like take
my project further and make it real because it all
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started with just an idea. And after that, like after
the competition was over, I kept going with this project.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
I kept expanding it.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
And throughout the project, like I have met many mentors,
like for example, the professor of the University of British Columbia.
She helped me. She helped like introduce me to part
of my project, which was biochart. But overall this was
a pretty independent project. I actually tested the fertilizer in
my backyard. I didn't test in labs or things, so
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this project was pretty independent. But my parents have also
been a really big part and like really supported me
throughout the entire project because they really gave me the
like access to resources and stuff that I needed. But yeah,
most of this has been like independent and at my house.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Wow, So where do you go to school and how
do you juggle this project with your studies?
Speaker 6 (26:23):
I currently attend Westview High School. In Portland, Oregon, and
I like I kind of do this like out of school,
like I have. I'mlike Vivian, like I have like a normal,
like school schedule. I have to be there from like
the morning to like four pm. So it is kind
of hard because like I need to like juggle school
work and the project as well. But after school, like
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I take a lot of my time to work on
this project and take it further. I'm actually in the
process of creating a nonprofit right now, and as part
of that nonprofit, like I'm also going to elementary schools
talking about climate change climate education, which isn't really talked about.
I'm also taking time to fundraise for local food banks.
So yeah, it is a lot to juggle, but like,
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I think it is working out, and I'm able to
like kind of split my time between schoolwork and the project.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
So what in doing this? You know, like Vivian talked
about how orgami has been really great for dealing with
social isolation. Social isolation is a serious problem in the
United States right now and elsewhere, not just here. But
let's just focus which is impacting the mental health and
it and and COVID did not help, uh, and it has.
(27:37):
I don't think people have healed, and you know it
gets worse. We all know that that is a big problem.
Climate change, similarly, is a major problem and challenge in
the United States, particularly with people who don't believe it
actually exists versus people who do. I know it does.
We all know it does, and we all know that
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unless something is done, it's going to get worse. Same
with social isolation. What in terms of and I'm going
to open this up, so Anisha, what would as you
dove into this, what were some of the surprise what
surprised you most about your findings that you were like, wow,
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I had no idea.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
So the thing that like surprised me the most was
when I came across kelp seaweeds, because I genuinely like
did not know that I had the ability of sequestering
carbon into the ocean. And I don't think many people
are aware of this property either, because we just see
a wash up on beaches and we're like, oh my god,
like I want to stay away from it. At least
that was how it was for me, Like it doesn't
look the most appealing and you kind of just want
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to stay away from it, but it actually has these
like super magical like abilities, and I wasn't aware of
this at all, and when I came across it, like,
I was super surprised. I was also surprised with the
amount of people who aren't aware that climate change is
in fact real. Many people don't think it is real,
and like scientists predict that like if we don't go
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back to like that zero like twenty fifty, like there
is no going back, like it's just going to continue
to get worse and we won't be able to do
anything about it. So I think it is super important
to bring awareness to climate change. But yeah, those are
the two things that surprise me the most.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
It's interesting. I travel a lot in my work in
the winning business, and the vineyards are all being you know,
it's all agriculture and everybody's being impacted. And it's not
just temperature. It's it's also the condition of the soil.
It's the litter, the litter, the garbage I have seen
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I can't I won't point out which I'm shocked that
there are people in the world that will talk the
talk about climate change and then toss all their litter
in a mound a mountain that you're like, how did
this happen? Or they'll you know, still use plastic straws.
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They'll go into the water and reef with bad you know,
sunscreen that hurts the reefs. I've seen so much of
this and as skip. But you know, I go to
Hawaii a lot and I see the ocean reefs are
a mess, a mess, uh, And it's seemed to help
a lot of people. Just think that's all like ocean trash.
It's it's natural occurring substance in the ocean. And the
(30:24):
fact that you're doing something with it to regenerate it,
because the term is regenerative, is amazing, just amazing, really incredible. So,
do you have a website or social media to share
with my listeners and viewers.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
I don't have a website as of now, but if
you want to like follow my work and ongoing projects,
you can follow my instagram, which is aniche do.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Yeah, okay, so that's a niche to do it. And
just so everybody knows, uh, well, it's on the screen,
your name is on the screen, so you can say
the spelling.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
Yea.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
I'm gonna open this up a little bit between you
with all of your little repartee you're both looking at college.
You know that college is very expensive. Now, I know
you're probably thinking about it. You haven't applied what And
we'll start with Vivian, what would you like you know,
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what are you planning to study, even though that can
always change, and what would you like to do in
the future If you have any idea yet, Vivia, we'll
start with you.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
Yeah, so right now at the University of North Texas,
I'm a mechanical engineering track, so I take mechanical engineering classes,
but I also want to use engineering for social work
as well, like with for Origami for Good. So I'm
really passionate about youth and service and everyone being a
volunteer and doing good for the world. So I definitely
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want to continue my social work as well and grow
orgon me for good alongside my studies. And I've thought
about this a lot, and I have a lot of
ideas of how I want to pass on or got
me for good because when I do get to college,
I do realize that I will get busier. So I
have a lot of people in mind that I know
will take it care or got me for good when
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I do go to college.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
That's great, Okay, Anisha what about you.
Speaker 6 (32:18):
Yeah, so after graduation, I plan to pursue a degree
in engineering. That's how it is as of now, and
my goal is to apply technology and research to solve
environmental and climate related challenges. I definitely want to take
my project even further and make it a lot bigger.
I plan on like making my nonprofit official as well
(32:40):
in the future, alongside like patenting my fertilizer and actually
getting it to the people who could really use it,
alongside the earth AI machine learning model. So yeah, that's
my plan for the future.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Okay, So I'm gonna I'm gonna alternate starting so that
the second answer is it goes gets the first question
doesn't get as much time to think about the answer
as the next person. So, Anita, what woman entrepreneur or
social impact whatever, who living or dad female has inspired
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you the most own and why?
Speaker 6 (33:27):
I would say Greta Thunberg because she is super related
to climate change, Like she has really brought awareness to
climate change as well, and she shows how like one
person's curiosity and conviction can really grow into a global movement.
And she began with just like asking questions and like
taking small, like small consistent action. But her like impact
(33:51):
that she has made on the entire world has really
like demonstrated the power of like persistence and advocacy and leadership.
And I think I respect her a lot.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
She's you know, she's amazing, just amazing, Okay, Vivian who
and a woman living her dad entrepreneur social impact hilanthemis
inspires you in mine.
Speaker 5 (34:17):
I really respect Princess Diana because she showed up physically
when a lot of people stayed kind of distant. So
she shook hands with like AIDS patients when people were
afraid to touch them, and walk through active land mindfields
to force global attention. And I really just admire the
way she used her fame and platform responsibility, like responsibly
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and to showcase like causes that need to be seen.
And I think that trait is just so admirable in
a person.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
You know, Princess Diana was interesting example because she dealt
with her own self doubt and demons as we know,
and difficulties insecurities. Really as the wife of at the
time Prince Charles, there was you know, a lot of
issues in the marriage. There were a lot of issues
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having to live to much higher standards than we're all
used to and I think a lot of what she
did by becoming the Princess of the people helped her
as well as the people. She felt she could create
something that was purposeful but also gave her a sense
of purpose because she was like living in a very
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isolated situation. You would think she wasn't, but she was.
So it's an interesting example because really what you're doing
with oregonomy and good is helping people that maybe they
don't have a sense of joy, or they feel isolated,
or they don't have a purpose, and a simple thing
like creating something and giving it to someone else connecting
(35:51):
can help with that. It's an interesting example. And Greta
girl was amazing. I think did she like like I
don't know, she was somewhere fighting with I don't know,
she was somewhere in the world that they were like
pirates invaded or boat or something. I'm like, oh my god,
she's like a hero. Great examples, both great examples of
very different people from different backgrounds. And I think that's
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important here because with the Baron Prize, you don't have
to your background doesn't matter. Your background doesn't matter, it's
what your purpose is and what you're doing. So How
did you each learn about the Baron Prize. I'm curious
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was there a winner that inspired you? Did you hear
about it? Vivian, I'll start with you.
Speaker 5 (36:41):
I learned about the Baron Prize through a past winner,
esther Bonnie, and she talked to me about the Baron
Prize because I was like talking to her about her
nonprofit organization or her organization Nature Natives, and she told
me about the Baron Prize and just like, this is
like a really good prize and I believe that your
organization suits it really well. And so she's actually who
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inspired me to ply. And then after that, I did
a lot of research about the Baron Prize, and obviously
I read through a bunch of like the winner bios
and stuff, and after reading thrills like there's no way
I'm going to win, and after applying and getting the call,
the fact that I was a Baron Prize recipient was
just so crazy.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
Did you have to go and do an interview or
anything or just submit a packet?
Speaker 5 (37:25):
I didn't have to go through an interview. Yeah, I
just submitted. It's interesting.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
I'm I'm trying to enter my own podcasts and I
have like, oh, I'm never gonna win my bother. So
you know, as I think you said you got to
do it, and one of you said you got to
just get out and do it. You can't just say,
oh no, I can't do it. If I don't do it,
If you don't try, you don't have an option. You
don't have a chance. So get out there and enter
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that contest. Of those awards are submitted and there's extra
work to do it, but just do it. I'm talking
to myself as well as everybody else. A niche, How
did you learn about the Baron Prize? Did you learn
it from a winner? Reading about it? Tell me your
journey into becoming a Baron Prize winner.
Speaker 5 (38:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (38:09):
So the way that I learned about the Baron Prize
was really similar to Vivian's way of learning about it.
I learned about it through past winners as well. People
from my school have won the Baron Prize alongside like
someone I went to the Three of Young Scientists Challenge
like he won as well him and Buckley, So I
kind of learned about it through them. And I also
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read through all the bials and I was like, there's
no way I'm gonna win either, it was really similar
to like Vivian, but I did end up winning and
that was super surprising.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
I was super happy.
Speaker 6 (38:41):
I'm still super grateful, And yeah, I definitely recommend applying
to it because you never know, Like, yeah, you just
never know, So like definitely like taking that step to
actually like apply and stuff like it could.
Speaker 5 (38:55):
Really be a difference.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Yeah, yeah, no, absolutely, and it takes time, but just
set aside the time. So since winning the Baron Prize,
which is the twenty twenty five prize, it's fairly recent
because I think it was announced towards the last part
of twenty twenty five. How what has happened in your life?
How was your life change or how do you see
it changing? What was something that happened I need sh
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I'll start with you.
Speaker 5 (39:19):
A way that has changed.
Speaker 6 (39:20):
Like my project has definitely received a lot more recognition
than it has like before, Like everyone who's reaching out
and like learning about my project. I feel like it's
making a bigger impact than it did before winning the
Baron Prize, So I think that's been a huge thing,
along with like using the actual grant and like making
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my project even bigger than it was, like getting the
products to like people who actually need it, like growing
my nonprofit initiative as well, and going to more schools
and stuff like that. Getting the resources for the kids
at different schools, like a lot has definitely changed and
in a really good way.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Yeah, that's great, what about you, Vivian.
Speaker 5 (40:04):
For me, ever since I won the Baron Prize, the
money has been really helpful for like funding our more
underserved chapters and allowing them to hold more workshops and
stuff like that. And then also the Baron Prize as well,
it's allowed me to meet other Baron Prize winners like
Anisha and they have reached out to for partnerships and
stuff like that, So I think that's super cool, like
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the Baron Prize network as well. And since the Baron Prize,
have also gotten an article written on Scholastic Magazines, which
is super full circle for me because I've been reading
Scholastic ever since I was very little and I remember
going to the Scholastic book fairs and stuff like that,
so I think that has been very cool as well.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
That's so fantastic, you know. I think you both are
great examples of hope in a time when a lot
of people are losing hope. And I think our message
from you to me, to everybody is you know you
got to get out there. And if you have an idea,
act on it. Don't say it will never happen. Don't
talk yourself out of not taking action, whether it's advocacy,
(41:08):
starting a project, changing jobs, just applying for a Baron Price,
just do it because if you don't inaction doesn't do anything.
And even if you're rejected, at least you tried and
it builds confidence. And I'm sure that the Baron Prize
(41:29):
was named after Gloria Baron, who was a child. She
wrote children's books. As an author myself, you get a
lot of rejection, so she probably faced rejection. I mean
everybody is going to face it. You fail forward, if
you fail for project Douse, you fail forward and take
it and learn from their mistakes and go on. The
key is to do it. And I think you both
are examples of young women the great future who are
(41:51):
doing amazing things now. And I think that you can
do that any agen stage of her life. Again, we
have been talking with two of the twenty twenty five
Gloria Baron Price Award winners for Young Heroes. They've each
won ten thousand dollars to put against invest in their
projects or their future education. I'm going to sum up
(42:14):
this show. It's Barnprize dot Org. I'm going to sum
up a show, the show with a really great quote
from Ta Baron, whose mother was Gloria Barn and how
he has perpetuated and continues her legacy in by doing good.
He says, nothing is more inspiring than stories about heroic
people who have truly made a difference to the world.
(42:37):
And we need our heroes today now more than ever.
Not celebrities, but heroes, real people whose character can inspire us.
Speaker 6 (42:46):
All.
Speaker 3 (42:47):
That is the purpose of the Baron Price to shine
a spotlight these amazing people so their stories will inspire others.
I really hope that your story is Vivian and Anisia
will inspire anyone listening. There may be someone today and
I was thinking about this without the show, I don't
you know who's listening, who's watching right now? It's a
live show. I don't know. But the show continues on
(43:07):
over sixty five podcast channels and permanently on YouTube and
those channels. There may be someone who is going to
listen to the show or watch it. Maybe they're having
a bad day, maybe they're having some self doubt. Maybe
they're just not sure what they're gonna do next. Maybe
they saw the news. Maybe just maybe they're gonna hear
(43:28):
your stories and watch this show and say, I have hope,
I'm gonna get back up and I'm gonna go forward
and do something. Because that's really what it's about, right,
And I think that's the message of this show. That's
the message of you, that's the message of the Baron
Price that it can be done at any age. You're
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never too old, you're never too young, you're never too uneducated.
At Menesia, you taught yourself coding. I mean, you know
your grand mother taught you. I mean everyone has a
gift and everyone has potential. You just have to reach
deep down and believe in yourself. And as I always
(44:11):
like to say, I created this show for that reason
because it helps me also remember that you can be
fearless and fabulous even if you have a bad day.
But I want everybody to have a good day by
watching this show and listening to these amazing people and
checking out the other stories on Barrenprice dot org of
amazing young people who are doing things to inspire others
(44:32):
and make a difference in the world. And if you're
thinking about that today, I want to end this show
with my message, which I always say, is that you
have the capacity in life to live any way you want.
Always choose to live life on your terms and not
by the standards other people set for you that may
or may not be to your best interest. Always act
(44:53):
upon the good and realize that you can define and
redefine yourself over you the years, and when you do
choose to live life on your terms, always choose to
be fearless and fabulous. Thank you.
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