2/17/15 O&A Inspirational Tuesday: 2014 ESPYS Stuart Scott Jimmy V Perseverance Award (Full Speech)

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Stuart Scott shares his emotional battle with cancer receiving the 2014 Jimmy V Perseverance Award. He follows Jimmy V’s motto to “Never give up”. Continue reading

2/3/15 O&A Inspirational Tuesday: Barack Obama- 2004 Democratic National Convention Speech

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In 2004, a one-term senator from Illinois took the stage to deliver the keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. By the time Barack Obama had finished speaking, Democrats across the country knew they had seen the future of their party. Continue reading

1/27/15 O&A Inspirational Tuesday: My Beautiful Woman- Three Stories of Unconditional Love

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My Beautiful Woman is a collection of three short films of unconditional love sponsored by Wacoal, a Thai lingerie company. The Beauty Inside campaign that consists of three short 7-minute videos tell stories, based on actual events, of women whose quiet sacrifices — including for an unborn child — win the admiration of men who tell the stories.  Continue reading

1/19/14 O&A Inspirational Tuesday: Kevin Doe- Persistent Experimentation

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Kelvin Doe was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone in 1996 as the youngest of five children. His creative instincts have been with him as a child and he would often dream of solutions to problems in his community. At the age of 10, he started scavenging for scrap electronics parts from dump sites after school for his inventions.

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Kelvin, together with his team, was a winner of Global Minimum’s Innovate Salone 2012 — the inaugural high school innovation challenge in Sierra Leone. He had built a radio station for his community out of recycled materials, in addition to homemade batteries and a generator. Kelvin was selected to travel to the U.S. in 2012, where he was invited to speak at the “Meet the Young Makers” panel at the World Maker Faire 2012 in New York.

Kelvin officially became the youngest ever “visiting practitioner” with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) International Development Initiative. At MIT, he presented his inventions to students in two D-Lab classes, engaged with community members at MIT, and participated in hands-on research at the MIT Media Lab. He has also lectured to undergraduate engineering students at Harvard College.

Kelvin’s experience captured on a YouTube video has been viewed over 4 million times and continues to inspire other young people in his country and around the world. Kelvin is presently continuing his high school education at Prince of Wales secondary school in Sierra Leone.