If you want to discourage your teenager from texting while driving, make him or her drive a car with a manual transmission. A driver who has to work the gearshift constantly must stay focused. Seattle's NBC News affiliat...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/05/09/Solution-to-Teen-Distracted-Driving-Get-a-Manual-Transmission/
Muscular dystrophy gives Nick Torrance added challenges at Pickney Community High School in Pickney, Michigan. But opening his locker is no longer one of them, thanks to the mechanical ingenuity of fellow students Micah...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/05/09/High-School-Students-Build-Robotic-Locker-Opener-for-Disabled-Student/
What's that smell? It's the smell of refreshing air from the rear end of a cow. Two high school students in Indonesia developed air freshener from a plentiful source of foul odors--cow manure:Dwi Nailul Izzah and Rintya...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/03/14/High-School-Students-Invent-Air-Freshener-Made-Out-of-Cow-Manure/
Jhaqueil Reagan, 18, has grit.Last week, he was walking to a job interview in Indianapolis--ten miles, through the snow. A local restraurant owner met him on the journey, learned what he was doing, and saw the potential...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/28/Teenagers-10-Mile-Walk-in-the-Snow-to-a-Job-Interview-Lands-Him-a-Job/[http://youtu.be/415kr2hRuYA] (YouTube link)Being 45 is so much better than being 15! Here's the soon-to-be-hit song from the group Pushing 40, featured in the web series My Dad Is In A Boy Band. -via Daily of the Day...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/12/45-Is-The-New-15/
Science knows that our teenage years are extremely... ...we've expanded the role of education so much that teenagers spend about 16 hours a week interacting with adul... ...acting with adults and 60 hours a week with other teenagers who are just as clueless. This is akin to throwin...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/01/22/Why-You-Truly-Never-Leave-High-School/[youtube 3_xzTqgIYRM](Video Link) When she was twelve, Kathryn DiMaria decided that she wanted a Pontiac Fiero. She bought the remains of one with babysitting money and has spent the past two years rebuilding it. By the...
http://www.neatorama.com/neatobambino/2012/10/26/12-Year-Old-Girl-Rebuilds-Car/[http://youtu.be/2IB7NDUSBOo] (YouTube link)This v... ...school serves -bcause it's not enough for growing teenagers , they say.New USDA school lunch guidelines, part... ...ey need more food than the minimums set, she said. Teenagers can easily pack away twice as much food as a midd...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/09/27/We-Are-Hungry/
Lydia Ko of New Zealand is only 15, but she's already won a LPGA golf tournament. And it's not even her first! She also won a competition at the age of 14, becoming the youngest ever champion in that sport's history. Cu...
http://www.neatorama.com/neatobambino/2012/08/27/15-Year-Old-Wins-Professional-Golfing-Tournament/(YouTube link) The Belgian organization Responsible Young Drivers (RYD) confronted the issue of texting while driving by telling student drivers they would have to pass a test on their texting while driving skills, an...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/05/02/the-texting-and-driving-test/
