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Awfully big of you Rupie. ...

Congratulations, the future is brighter because of young people like you. I wish a great life for you!!

Critical thinking toolkit primer: youtu.be/Lk05Hi465wQ?...

This short article gives you an idea of the kinds of things that Trump has in store for all non-Republican Americans. I can see this guy in El Salvador before the end of the year. www.newser.com/story/390513...

Good for You, Ridley! Fairies love clarity and trust in human beings.

It is very disappointing as an educator that we now have to tell kids that not all .gov and .edu sites can be trusted to have factual information.

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Publish the paper or at least make it available to others (kids and adults).

Most adults seem to also have difficulty finding credible information. Of course, its the adults who spread almost all of the misinformation. Which, when I was 14, was called lies.

Educate them first...

someone send that kid $100 for real.

Ridley, you are the very best of the best!

... Where is Tom Steyer the multi-millionier when the youth are worth more than $100.

Y'all got to support the civic education of your kids. Start by getting them involved with #getthevoteout at #eightypluspercent

Oh my goodness! Mr. Mentzer is an exceptional human being. A credit to his parents and family. I only wish I knew him to shake his hand and say thank you.

Smart kids, are the best. Hard working students, are terrific!

"Truth is an event, and only through experience can the veracity of a truth be verified."

$100 is shit nowadays, it's 2026, fuck a hundred damn dollars, Eat the Rich!!!

Having to give away money that you won doesn't seem very incentivising?

Check out how well he writes!!! In the eighth grade !!! Mother Jones: keep an eye on him!!!

Yep… surely not long before he becomes a target of Trump’s new DNI pick Bill Pulte. At the *very least* his intelligence/courage is perfect fodder for pathetic Trump arsekissing cucks like Fox’s big, tuff Jesse Watters & Greg Gutfeld.

The severity of gaslighting society. All smoke and mirrors. This kid is my hero.

We need the laws back.

Bless his heart

it starts with the youth

Awesome!

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There is hope for the future with kids like Ridley 👍

The grammar of that headline is a bit misleading. It should be clear that the prize was not money given to him that he then spontaneously chose to donate, but that he was offered a choice of whom to donate to and chose the subject.

Wow, thank you so much!

Love this! Awesome youth; kudos to parents and teachers who have supported and shaped him. Stay just the way you are.

Thank God I read the bottom... I thought he donated to neuro linguistic programming

Congrats Ridley!

There are good kids out there

I was afraid it was Neuro-Linguistic Programming and wanted to say "Honey, don't go there!". Good choice, young man.

I don't recall having any difficulty evaluating information when I was 14, though I was distracted somewhat by motorcycles, rock and roll and girls, and that whole intoxication of being young and alive. If Mad magazine had been labelled "Fox News" I think I would have discerned the problem.

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Best wishes to this young man.

At least we had something to believe in. With that all but gone, idk how kids can trust anything. This makes me sad. wtf. America?!

What a nice young person!💜

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I remember watching the US movie Pay it Forward....and I live by that....this story gives me a similar feeling.

They were dying a while ago. We just couldn't see it as clear. When they were rarely critical of Trump his first term, that should have been our first sign. Our second is the way they treat the most vulnerable and those who champion them. Journalism bowed to vanity and greed around the world.

He has lessons to teach. Hope is alive.

Pure awesomeness Ridley 💪☮️💜

I wonder how many lists that got him on?

You can not fool the kids!