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Bay Area Teens Spend Summer Innovating, Competing, and Coding for Impact

Bay Area high schoolers are spending their summers building hardware, coding safety tools, and developing engineering projects — some for national competitions — through school programs and youth-led initiatives that foster real-world innovation.

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Notable Humans: Berkeley Teen Takes On World’s Toughest Swims To Raise Money For Pediatric Cancer

This week's notable humans are Maya Merhige, a Berkeley teen who completed her fourth Oceans Seven swim; Tim Friede, whose work self-injecting snake venom has aided crucial antivenom research; and Brighid Kohl, creator of an innovative anti-bullying and leadership program at her college.

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SF High School Freshman to Be Honored at NY's Jazz at Lincoln Center After Winning Prestigious National Competition

15-year-old San Francisco native Ethan Liao already played Carnegie Hall this year, and now he’s headed back to New York to Jazz at Lincoln Center after his new composition won a top national prize. We’ve got a taste of his very notable sounds.

Five Years Later, Oakland High School Grads Reflect on How COVID Wrecked Their High School Years

As we approach the five-year COVID lockdown anniversary, a New York Times feature talks to a dozen Oakland Technical High School grads about how it affected them to spend their prime teen years stuck in their room, and just on Zoom.

SFPD Arrests Gang of Teens, One of Them Just 12 Years Old, for String of Walgreens Robberies Totaling $84,000

Eight minors from across the Bay Area, one of them only 12 years old, have been arrested and charged for 23 separate Walgreens robberies in which their estimated alleged stolen loot totaled $84,000 worth.

14-Year-Old Girl Killed, 11-Year-Old Critically Injured in Richmond Stolen Car Crash

Three teens and an 11-year-old were in a stolen Infinity G35 that crashed into two trees and a pole in Richmond early Monday morning, leaving a 14-year-old girl dead, and her 11-year-old sister hospitalized.

Teen Daredevils Face Jail Time For Golden Gate Bridge Shenanigans

You might recall soiling your pants back in mid-May while watching the exhilarating but phenomenally stupid viral video, seen above, of two teen bros who climbed the Golden Gate Bridge, then did all

Teen Who Scaled Golden Gate Bridge Offers His Security Services To Bridge Authority

The 18-year-old who goes by the name Peter Teatime (not his real name?) is making the media rounds following the video he made with a friend going viral featuring them climbing to the

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Video: Teen Daredevils Climb To Top Of Golden Gate Bridge, Dangle From Cables

Proving just how easy it is to jump a fence, enter the restricted area, and climb the main cables all the way to the top of the Golden Gate Bridge's towers, two teens

Teen Driver Plunges Car Into Santa Clara Pool

Sometimes it's best to jump in at the deep end of the pool... especially when you're driving a car that would bottom out in the shallow end. That was one shred of luck

Cool Kid Microsoft Wants Its 'Bae Interns' To Get 'Lit On A Monday Night'

An email sent by Microsoft is enough to make one wonder if the company restarted its ill-fated (racist/pot-head) tween Twitter-bot Tay and then gave it a recruiting job. In an attempt to

Deplorable Teen Allegedly Pretends To Be Midwestern Adult, Trashes Oakland Airbnb

Who could have seen this going so terribly, terribly wrong? An Oakland couple rented their home via Airbnb for New Year's Eve to someone they thought was a middle-aged man from Chicago, only

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A Look Inside SF's Creepshow Summer Camp For Kids

The South of Market parking lot of the Hypnodrome is splattered with multiple pools of blood at 1 p.m. on a Monday. “You can see we did blood bags this morning,” says

Trial Begins In Case Of Bay Area Teenager Who Killed Herself After Being Humiliated And Bullied

The parents of Audrie Pott, the 15-year-old girl who took her own life in 2012 eight days after an incident of sexual assault and subsequent humiliation by several boys, are entering the final

S.F. Catholic School Cuts Girl's Yearbook Photo Over Tuxedo

San Francisco's Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep school got a thwhack from the social media ruler this week after the school banned a girl's yearbook photo because she decided to wear a tuxedo. According

Are Selfies Causing Head Lice Infestations Among Teens?

A Scotts Valley lice expert claims that selfies, the white-hot teen sensation sweeping the nation in 2010, are causing an uptick in lice infestations among the younger generation. Is your filthy teen at

Oakland Girl Brain Dead After Routine Tonsil Surgery

The parents of an Oakland girl are seeking answers after their daughter, 13-year-old Jahi McMath, underwent routine tonsil surgery last week but later was pronounced brain dead. According to reports, "hospital staff have

Agender Teen Burned On Oakland Bus Speaks Out For The First Time

For the first time since the terrible incident in which Oakland teenager Sasha Fleishman had his clothing burned at the hands of another teenager in what appears, by all accounts, to be a

Facebook Looks To Monetize Teenagers' Posts By Easing Privacy Rules

Barely a week after we learned that Google Plus is going to start making us opt out of having our thoughts and personal reviews used by corporations in "social ads," Facebook has turned

Prop. 8 Creep Now Targeting Trans Teens

The man behind Prop. 8 may have suffered a setback when his anti-gay marriage campaign was thwarted earlier this year, but Frank Shubert isn't letting that get him down. He's now ramping up

Reason #758392 To Never Leave The City

Suburban teens. They're deplorable. For example... #Pleasanton PD will hold news conference at 9:30a.m. to update man beaten into coma after he asked teens to quiet down in front of his

Teen Shot, Killed In Ingleside

Shortly after getting off an M Ocean View line at the corner of Randolph and Bright streets, an unidentified 19-year-old man was shot and killed. The shooting happened at around 10 p.m.