Terry Mottinger- Team Cincinnati, Team 1, Quarter 1 Terry Mottinger is an art teacher who has a special charge. She teaches kids to love art. She works in an inner city school in Columbus, Ohio. She always loved kids but recently discovered a special passion for them. She dreams of creating artists for the future; [...]
LIFESAVERS IN LIFE
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Emily Shields- Team Washington DC, Team 1, Quarter 1 What would it be like to wake up every day and absolutely love what you do? Or wake up every day and know that you changed someone’s life? Emily Shields gets to have both of those experiences every day. She found her passion when she [...]
FREEDOM OF CHOICE FOR CHILDREN
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Sylvie Chapdelaine- Team Montreal, Team 2, Quarter 1 Going through a divorce is never easy, but as Sylvie Chapdelaine found out, it was even harder for her seven year old son, Francois-Xavier. Constantly bouncing between his parents’ homes was difficult for him. He felt caught in the middle and pressured to choose one parent [...]
A NEW LEASE ON LIFE
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Don Murphy- Team Cincinnati, Team 1, Quarter 3 Have you ever wanted to have a second chance at something? For many ex-felons, they want just that, but they rarely get a second chance. This is where Don Murphy and his Game in the World, A New Lease on Life, stepped in. Don began formulating [...]
LOVE AND LIGHT
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Marshall Muller- Team Detroit, Team 1 complete Marshall Muller’s passion is renewable energy; he’d worked in it all his life and always wanted to make an impact in the world. He had invented a process for creating solar cells at half the cost. However, before he could finish, Marshall was laid off as a research [...]