TIME releases “The 16 Most Influential Teens of 2013” List
TIME Magazine released the list of The 16 Most Influential Teens of 2013 on Tuesday. The publication which is famous for its ‘TIME 100’ List had teenagers from all walks of life – Actors, Technologists, Musicians, Activists, Models – on the list.
High Up on the list was 17-year old New Zealander Lorde, whose real names are Ella Yelich-O’Connor. Lorde has been signed to a Record Label since 13 and is famous for her album ‘Pure Heroine’ and hit single ‘Royals’, which was number 1 on Itunes in September.
Malala Yousafzai, 16, who was shot in the head and neck in an assassination attempt by the Taliban on the bus home from school in Pakistan in 2012. Yousafzai was a target because of her vocal activism to better the education of girls under Taliban rule. After surviving the attack, the now-16-year-old didn’t hide in fear but strengthened her voice. “I speak for education of every child, in every corner of the world,” she said, and the world has been listening. This year she received the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought and a Clinton Global Citizen Award. She was also nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Ionut Budisteanu is a 19-year-old scientist whose design for a low cost, self-driving car won first place and $75,000 at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for high school students in May. The prototype signals the potential of manufacturing autonomous driving vehicles to the masses, costing only $4,000 to build as opposed to Google’s $75,000 self-driving car. Budisteanu, a student in Romania, used artificial intelligence technology and a mounted camera on the car to identify traffic lanes, curbs, cars and even people.
Notable on the list are Kim Kardashian’s half sisters, Kendall and Kylie Jenner, 18 & 16; 15-year-old daughter of President Barack Obama, Malia Obama; Pop sensation, Justin Bieber, 19; 16-year-old Danto de Blasio, son of Mayor-elect of New York.
Also on the list are New Zealand golfer born in South Korea, 16-year-old Lydia Ko who turned pro this year and is already fifth in women’s world rankings after just 23 tournaments; 18-year-old Whiz kid Nick D’Aloisio, who sold his news-reading and summarising application, “Summly”, to Yahoo in March for $30million; Missy Franklin, 18, who won six gold medals at the 2012 Olympics and in doing so not only claimed the title of winning best female swimmer ever at a world meet, but also became the fifth swimmer to capture six or more golds at Worlds or the Olympics; Mad Men actress, 14-year-old Kiernan Shipka who has been on the show since she was 6 and a half.
Maya Van Wagenen, 15, is the youngest author/non-actor to ever make a deal at the DreamWorks film studio; Beth Reekles, 17 wrote and release her online novel, The Kissing Booth, at 15. The novel earned Reekles more than 19 million views and a three-book deal with the U.S. arm of Publishers, Random House. 16-year-old Chloe Grace Moretz is an acclaimed actress with a lead role in “Carrie” and Hailee Steinfeld, 16,earned her first Academy Award Nomination at 13.