The Pearson World Changer Awards 2020 Showcase

16-year-old Jamie Watson produced 700 visors for NHS staff and key workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using his 3D printer and one he borrowed from school, he helped people on the frontline to protect themselves amidst a national shortage of PPE.

Youth@CLC are a youth advisory panel, aged between 13 and 18, who help children and young people in Northern Ireland to understand their legal rights with the Children’s Law Centre.

They helped to create REE Rights Responder, which they say is the first online legal chatbot where young people under 18 can ask questions about their rights on anything from minimum wage to stop and searches.

So far it has sent and received a total of 8,604 messages from young people about their rights and helped young people across Northern Ireland to stand up for themselves.

9-year-old Teddie Trainer from Wales put his enterprising baking skills to good use, raising money for orphaned children in Zambia through his decorated cupcakes.

Matt Boyd, Tallulah Clarke, Isabel Gilchrist, Conal Ham, Mackenzie Jackson, Lewis Perryman, Ellis Simpson, Ailsa Swinburne

A group of Year 9 students from Berwick Academy in Northumberland used their learning about graffiti art to decorate their town, as well as inform people about important health issues. The students’ art will appear on boards erected outside of the new Berwick Hospital site for the local community to learn from and enjoy.

17-year-old Saratu is passionate about racial equality and has been using the power of performance and spoken word to share her views and experiences in her school and beyond.

She has spent over a year personally researching the Black Lives Matter movement and injustices across America and Britain and is committed to studying this further and driving change through activism and campaigning when she goes to university next year.

For the last year, 13-year-old Zach Graham, from Cumbria, has been creating vibrant artwork on hundreds of pebbles and selling them to fundraise for causes that matter to him. Over lockdown, he raised over £2,000 for the NHS.

He plans to be an illustrator when he is older and to continue having a positive impact on people through his artwork.

This special school in Bolton empowers its students to make a positive difference in the community, while educating the public about autism.

Despite significant barriers to learning, with 82% of students autistic and all learning-disabled, students visit the elderly, pick up litter, raise awareness about mental health and volunteer in a vast range of local projects.

Bradford Academy’s Sporting Elite student ambassadors have been volunteering their own time to come into school early to cook and distribute breakfast to the whole school, ensuring no child is too hungry to learn.

18-year-old Rachel, an ambassador for Dyslexia Scotland, is passionate about educating the public and changing perceptions of dyslexia.

She has presented to children and teachers at schools throughout Scotland, as well as student teachers at several Scottish Universities, helping them to better understand dyslexia and take action to make school a positive experience for dyslexic children.

Motivated by the COVID-19 pandemic and scientific developments, 16-year-old Molly started a fortnightly health and medicine newsletter at her school.

She has kept students up to date on important scientific developments and current affairs in an approachable and accessible way, while drawing on her learning and interests in science and healthcare.