Archive for 'Amazing Kids'

Amazing Busy Kids: Laura Vargas designs ‘Ouchies for Others’

Posted 12 April 2013 | By | Categories: All Ages, Amazing Kids, Inspiring, What's Left | 1 Comment

You may remember that Ouchies for Others design contest from a while back… you know, the one where kids from around the country were invited to create their own bandage design for the Fight Against Pediatric Cancer? SA Busy Kids is excited to share with you that San Antonio’s own, Laura Vargas, has been selected as [...]

Amazing Busy Kids: 2013 Fiesta Especial Royal Court

Posted 15 February 2013 | By | Categories: All Ages, Amazing Kids, Fiesta Guide, Inspiring, Special Needs | No Comments

For all you Fiesta followers (and everyone else too) here’s an exciting announcement from RMI. The 2013 Fiesta Especial® Royal Court will be crowned this Saturday, February 16 at the Hand in Hand Runway Show benefiting Monarch Academy and Morgan’s Wonderland. This year’s royal court is made up of nine amazing individuals with disabilities, ranging [...]

Photo by Ms Dotty, SXC.hu

No kid should ever be hungry

Posted 06 September 2012 | By | Categories: Amazing Kids | 1 Comment

September 6-9 is Go Orange for No Kid Hungry. It’s a way for you to help. Why? Beause one out of five children in America face food insecurity…meaning, they don’t know where their next meal is coming from. It’s time for us to do something.

National STEM Video Game Challenge

Amazing Busy Kids: STEM Video Game Challenge Winner Gustavo Zacarias

Posted 07 August 2012 | By | Categories: Amazing Kids, Technology, Teens, Tweens | 1 Comment

Meet an amazing San Antonio Busy Kid with gaming on the brain. Earlier this year, middle schooler Gustavo Zacarias participated in the second National STEM Video Game Challenge, bringing together students from across the U.S. to compete over something that seems to be universally loved by middle school and high schoolers alike….computer games. But he [...]

Amazing Busy Kids: Irish Dance World Championship

Posted 20 May 2012 | By | Categories: Amazing Kids, Elementary, Teens, Tweens | No Comments

Kids do amazing things every day, and SA Busy Kids wants to shine the light on those incredible kids – ones you may not read about in the daily paper, but who deserve to have their stories told! I bet you didn’t know it, but San Antonio is home to a world class Irish dancer. [...]

Amazing Busy Kids: Ben’s Blog Saves the Monkeys

Posted 20 April 2012 | By | Categories: All Ages, Amazing Kids | 3 Comments

I love it when kids do amazing things. Especially when it is amazing and it helps somebody else. Enter Ben Brody. 10-year-old kid blogger with a mission. Ben is out to save the monkeys, one donation at a time. After learning that certain species of monkeys were endangered, Ben discovered the World Wildlife Fund’s adoption [...]