Hero Stories for High School Students

Dr. Hawa Abdi turned her family's land into a hospital to serve displaced Somalians during the civil war.

Armene Modi provides bicycles to girls in rural Indian villages so they can continue their education.

Imagine growing up in a country where drinking out of the wrong water fountain might get you thrown into jail; where a man might have the very same job as his neighbor, but because of the color of his skin, get paid less in a year than the other man made in a week; where the government told you that your ancestors and their ways of living were wrong and savage and not even human.

Katherine Johnson plotted multiple flight courses for NASA, including the Apollo 11 spacecraft.

Mathematician Mary Jackson worked at NASA as an aeronautical engineer.