Renita Zaparde
Grade 11, Plainsboro, New Jersey
Project: Pedal2Prosperity, Inc.
After Renita met an orphaned teenage girl from India who shared how she walks over three miles every day to go to school, Renita founded a nonprofit organization which provides bicycles to orphaned girls in India and Africa. In the four years since starting Pedal2Prosperity, Inc., students in 52 schools across the U.S. and Canada have joined Renita to send bicycles overseas.