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Digging through the Archives
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Record Set For World's Youngest Chess Champion
Hou Yifan, a 16-year-old chess player from China, became the youngest world chess champion on Friday, in the final of the Women's World Chess Championship held in Antakya, Turkey, toppling a record held since 1978. 12-24-10
8-Year-Olds Publish Scientific Bee Study
Slashdot.org reports: "A group of British schoolchildren may be the youngest scientists ever to have their work published in a peer-reviewed journal. In a new paper in Biology Letters, children from Blackawton Primary School report that buff-tailed bumblebees can learn to recognize nourishing flowers based on colors and patterns. The paper itself is well worth reading. It's written entirely in the kids' voices, complete with sound effects (part of the Methods section is subtitled, ''the puzzle'duh duh duuuhhh') and figures drawn by hand in colored pencil." See more
Boy, 3, unearths £2.5m treasure trove on FIRST metal detecting expedition
Instead of bottle caps and ridicule from his peers, 3-year-old James Hyatt (who is now four years old) found a reliquary locket worth millions with his metal detector... James and his dad found the gold locket last May in Essex. Since then the 500-year-old treasure has been appraised at around £2.5million. And in case you're wondering, that's $3.98 milions in dollars... Experts have dated the locket to the early 16th century – the era of Henry VIII – and say it could have belonged to a member of the royal family. James’ father Jason, 34, said: ‘My son is one of the luckiest people ever... If we go to the doctors he’ll put his hand down the side of the sofa and pull out a tenner.’ Read more
 Hero request from a third grader. Anyone???
We just found this on Slashdot from an anonymous reader: "Unhappy that all his friends have heroes he knows nothing about (they've all chosen hockey players — actually a hockey player: Sidney Crosby), my eight-year-old son asked me if I would find him a 'cool hero.' When pressed to define 'cool,' he very earnestly gave me this list of acceptable professions: 'Astronauts, explorers, divers, scientists, and pilots.' A second and only slightly less worthy tier of occupations includes 'inventors, meteorologists, and airplane designers.' To be eligible for hero status, an individual must be (1) accomplished in one of these fields, (2) reasonably young (it pains me to report that Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger, NASA's youngest astronaut and now just [35], barely makes the cut), and, critically to my naive son's way of thinking, (3) respected by third graders nationwide. Ignoring that last criterion, or not, what heroes would you suggest from the sciences as people whose lives and accomplishments would be compelling to an eight-year-old mind?" 11/19/10 Join the discussion.  slashdot
15-Year-Old Boy Fitted With Robotic Heart
"What do you do when a 15-year-old boy is close to death and ineligible for a heart transplant? If you're Dr. Antonio Amodeo you turn to an artificial solution and transplant a robotic heart... a permanent solution offering as much as 25 years of life and is powered by a battery worn as a belt."
Self-proclaimed Spider Boy scales walls using recycled vaccums
No Spiderman costume will do for this 13 year-old. He wanted to be like his hero, Spiderman, so he set about to make his dream a reality. Using two 1,400-watt recycled vacuum cleaners and a little bit of elbow grease, Hibiki Kono made a machine that allows him to scale walls - just like his spindly hero, Spiderman. Window-washing, anyone? slashdot
Mars cave opening found by 7th graders
A newly discovered cave on Mars was found as the result of an interesting class field trip... the 7th grade science class from Evergreen Middle School in Cottonwood, Calif., found the opening (estimated to be 620 by 520 feet and at least 380 feet deep) while working on a research project with the Mars Space Flight Facility run out of Arizona State University in Tempe. slashdot
An Eye on the Youth Olympic Games 2010
The Singapore 2010 [Summer] Youth Olympic Games (YOG) is an international multi-sport event for youths that is taking place in the city-state of Singapore from 14 to 26 August 2010, in the XXIX Olympiad. It is the inaugural event of the Summer Youth Olympics, a major sports and cultural festival to be celebrated in the tradition of the Olympic Games. Three thousand, five hundred and thirty-one athletes between 14 and 18 years of age from 204 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) will compete in 184 events in 26 sports. The decision for Singapore to host the Games was announced on 21 February 2008 after mail voting by 105 IOC members.
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