Youth

Nice News  - Would you let a teenager file your taxes? That’s not a riddle, but a reality at Rancho Cucamonga High School in the Southern California city of the same name. There, a group of students trained in tax filing and led by accounting teacher Chris Van Duin help run a free clinic for community members. The clinic exists thanks to an Internal Revenue Service program called VITA, or Volunteer Income Tax Assistance. As a result, the students get to assist people in need and learn valuable life skills (and they get breakfast burritos brought by Van Duin). Many of them are thinking about finance careers in the future — Calob Chavez, 17, told The New York Times he wants to be an investment banker, while Destiny Linda, 17, plans to get her doctorate in business.
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ABC News - When the largest wildfire in Texas history made its way to the town of Pampa earlier in the week, 15-year-old Nathan Slater told ABC News that he immediately knew where he had to be. Just minutes after his mother, Christie, picked him up from school Monday after classes were postponed due to the fires, he told her that he needed to respond to a page from the Hoover Volunteer Fire Department, where he had been training and volunteering for the last couple of months as a junior firefighter."It was my first fire to go onto. I was excited and nervous at the same time," Nathan told ABC News... Throughout the week, the nine junior members of the volunteer fire department were deployed and paired with an experienced adult fighting the wildfires around the town, which forced the evacuation of some homes.