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Pinewood Scholars Program
by Pinewood Scholars Program
The Pinewood Scholars Program is a dynamic, new social entrepreneurship class focused on integrating design thinking, project-based learning, and community partnerships in order to help our junior and seniors make a difference in the world.
Episodes
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Where Creativity Begins
Art isn’t “just a hobby”—its a powerful tool for development. Join me as I share how my initiative, Kits for Creativity, is transforming children’s lives.
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Echoes of Their Stories
Echoes of Their Stories dives into the individual human truths of September 11th, 2001, preserving unique accounts from both first responders and civilians. It creates an intimate mosaic of memories, ensuring the personal impact of 9/11 is never forgotten.
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Take a Hat Off
From sparkly iPod vlogs to professional marketing campaigns, Take the Hat Off chronicles how a passion for storytelling evolved into a tool for social impact. The podcast explores the creation of The Good Boost, an initiative empowering nonprofits and small businesses with sustainable marketing...
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Flicker to Flame: Nurturing Confidence That Lasts
Flicker to Flame: Nurturing Confidence That Lasts explores why so many children lose confidence—and how parents, educators, and communities can help reignite it. Featuring insights from the Words of Worth initiative, which includes a children’s book and SEL lesson plan, the podcast offers real...
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Beyond the Ballot
AI is already transforming industries from art to medicine. Beyond the Ballot examines how artificial intelligence can reinvent the democratic process and maximize civic engagement for first-time voters.
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The Recipe for Change
Food insecurity affects millions of families, but solutions don’t always start with big systems. The Recipe for Change, explores how teaching cooking and life skills can empower young people and help yaddress food insecurity, one small step at a time.
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The Weight Behind the Wait
The Weight Behind the Wait uncovers the hidden reasons behind the long lines at food banks and what families face before they ever reach the front. Through firsthand experience and conversations with food bank leaders, it reveals how rising demand and outdated systems shape the struggle to access...
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Plastic Pathways: From Creation to Consequence
Plastic Pathways: From Creation to Consequence addresses common misconceptions about plastic waste and ways to limit its effects in our communities. It delves into the inconsistencies of the recycling system, and introduces the impactful benefit of sustainable plastic-free products.
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One Paw at a Time
One Paw at a Time examines the challenges facing animal shelters and introduces pet fostering as an accessible solution. By tracing the growth of Paws and Play, it emphasizes how short-term action can lead to long-term impact.
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Urban Oasis: Reimagining Green Spaces for All
Urban Oasis: Reimagining Green Spaces for All explores how access to gardens and green spaces impacts mental health, crime reduction, and community well-being. The podcast examines how systemic inequities in urban planning leave low-income and marginalized communities without nature, and why that...
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The Allergen Agenda
Life can change in a single bite. The Allergen Agenda takes you inside the hidden world of life-threatening food allergies, where fear, resilience, and hope collide. Hear real stories, explore advocacy, and discover how awareness can save lives.
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Preloved Proms: Giving Formal Wear a New Life
What if the dress hanging in your closet could change someone's life? For many students, financial barriers keep them from experiencing milestone events like prom or graduation. This story explores how donated formal wear is helping to break down those barriers, offering every student the chance…
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Beyond the American Dreamscape
Beyond the American Dreamscape delves into the complexities and challenges of the immigration system, uncovering its flaws and systemic barriers. Through in-depth conversations with immigrants, it highlights personal stories of resilience, sacrifice, and the pursuit of a better future.
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Second Opinion
Second Opinion discusses medical misdiagnosis in the American healthcare system and potential solutions.
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One Robot Away
What if the next great innovator is out there but lacks access to the tools they need to make their ideas a reality? One Robot Away explores how robotics education can transform lives, sharing the journey to open up the world of robotics for underserved students and bridge the STEM education gap...
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Lift Without Fear
Lift Without Fear highlights shared issues with weight-lifting and advises on how to lift confidently.
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Future Green Teens
Join host Christina as she helps teens unlock the power of small, sustainable actions that create big environmental impacts. With quick quizzes, eco-hacks, and inspiring stories, this podcast makes sustainable living simple, fun, and empowering—because saving the planet starts with you!
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Printing a Path Forward
Printing a Path Forward follows Leo’s journey from a lost student with a passion for engineering to becoming a mentor and teaching students 3D printing.
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The Problem with Microfinance
Microfinance is often touted as a solution to global poverty, but has it detracted from its original mission? In this podcast, we will explore the current problems in Microfinance and the solutions.
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Unexpected Discovery
Unexpected Discovery deals with the problems and solutions of losing loved ones’ stories. Through recording and transcribing people’s stories, Unexpected Discovery changes lives and how to tell stories.
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Another Pathway to the Mind
Another Pathway to the Mind explores the benefits of music therapy, discussing the problems occurring in the field, how music therapists carry out their practice, and how it can be used as an alternative to traditional therapies and antidepressants.
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Beyond Shelter
Beyond Shelter explores the mental models and the underlying system surrounding unhoused people’s lack of hygiene access and my project to address some of their hidden needs.
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Lifting Lives
What is the true power of a fitness routine? Lifting Lives delves into the lack of meeting second-tier needs like fitness at unhoused shelters and how fitness can help unhoused people build stronger lives.
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Voices from the Valley: The Silent Struggle of Farmworker Kids
Voices from the Valley sheds light on the challenges farmworker children face in accessing education, inspired by my grandfather’s journey. Through programs like Bright Start, it explores how we can support these kids and create lasting change for families and communities.
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The Unseen Injury Ep. 2
Listen as host Hailey Alexander tells her own personal story
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Health Without a Home
Have you ever thought about how unhoused individuals get access to good healthcare? In this podcast, we will talk about the role housing plays in healthcare, heath equity vs. health equality, and what you can do to help.
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Vocals with Value
Music is everywhere we go, but have you ever stopped to wonder how it may be affecting your mindset? In this podcast we’ll explore just how music can is creating positivity in your life, and particularly the lives of youth.
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Bridge The Gap
In this Podcast I dive into the socioeconomic divide in the Bay Area and what some are doing to fix it. I talk about real life examples and interview a member of a non-profit in San Francisco in order to fully understand the efforts some are making to cultivate change.
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Mind vs. Media
This podcast addresses social media’s negative impact on teen mental-health, self-esteem, and self-confidence.
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Dumpster Dive
Have you ever wondered what happens to the bruised fruits and vegetables at your favorite restaurant? In this podcast, we dive into the food waste epidemic, and how we can make an impact.
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The Unseen Injury - Episode 1
Sit down with Hailey Alexander and former Stanford Football player Jordan Watkins as they address the implications that injuries have on athletes mental health.
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Locked Up
In this podcast we discuss prison reform and a specific cause that leads people to prison.
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Exercise and the Brain
In this podcast, I talk about how small amounts of exercise can benefit your mental and physical health.
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Behind Fashion
How fast fashion brands can take accountability for their ethical and ecological damage and how we can affect change
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Books and Baskets
A joyful podcast on the experience of being a student athlete. We feature two women’s college basketball athletes: Sara Anastasieska (Illinois) and Hannah Jump (Stanford). Sit back and relax!
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Hope Behind Bars: A Look into the Juvenile Justice System
What are some of the stories trapped behind the bars of the juvenile justice system? Check out this podcast for an in-depth analysis and interview about this controversial topic.
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Concussion Chaos
This podcast discusses the dangers of sustaining a concussion in sports.
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The TeRUFFIc Benefits of Spending Time with Man‘s Best Friend
This podcast is about the health benefits of owning a dog and the power of getting a dog from the shelter instead of from a breeder.
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Burgers or Bust
This podcast is about the beef industry and the effects it has on the environment and consumers.
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Where Are The Girls
This podcast analyses reasons why girls are not joining the STEM fields. The podcast offers solutions about what we can do about this issue.
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Safe Space
This podcast is about finding your identity as a LGBTQ youth in high school and the way that schools can support these students.
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Fostivities
This podcast is about the foster care system and the issues that foster parents and children endure through the process. The podcast owners interview foster parents and children to get a personal approach to this topic.
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The Biological Time Bomb
This podcast is about the importance of biodiversity and what listeners can do to make a change to protect the planet's resources.
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Skateboards Vs. School Boards
This podcast discusses why skateboards are prohibited and some solutions about how we can overcome these assumptions about skateboarders.
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Cafeteria Controversy
This podcast is about the unhealthy choices in school cafeterias and offers suggestions about how you can take action for better food choices in your school.
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Protect The Puppies
This podcast is about the shelter system and the action steps that we can do to improve it.
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This One Is In
This podcast explores the concept of grit in girls' basketball.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Pinewood Scholars Program is a dynamic, new social entrepreneurship class focused on integrating design thinking, project-based learning, and community partnerships in order to help our junior and seniors make a difference in the world.
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The Pinewood Scholars Program is a dynamic, new social entrepreneurship class focused on integrating design thinking, project-based learning, and community partnerships in order to help our junior and seniors make a difference in the world.
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