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Congratulations to this year's President's Innovation Challenge finalists in the Social Impact Student Track! These ventures are working to make our planet safer, more equitable, sustainable, and beautiful. Get to know them: BLKHLTH 🖤 Advancing health equity in Black communities through education, advocacy, research, and programs. Cancer Kids First🎗️ Normalizing the hospital experience and building community for pediatric cancer patients through the world’s largest youth-led cancer nonprofit. Fundación Colombiando ✏️ Co-creating a new rural education model with unseen multigrade teachers, turning hard-to-reach one-room schools into learning hubs. iNERDE Inc. 📚 Solving Africa’s teacher shortage by empowering community talent with an AI tutor, so children learn to read 20x faster at a tenth of the cost. Winko Solar ☀️ Delivering solar-powered oxygen to hospitals in Africa, with plans to expand globally. Join us at the President's Innovation Challenge Awards Ceremony on May 6 to learn which of these finalists will receive a share of over $500,000 in funding, courtesy of the Bertarelli Foundation. Link to RSVP, online or in-person: https://lnkd.in/ev4jaFat