Creativity in Action

Palash Gupta, a 12 year old from Quest Academy school in Palatine has embarked on a mission to raise funds for humanitarian causes. His method is unusual because he decided to form his own company called "Warrior in Training " where he will be the product manager of the book, "Raising Social Entrepreneurs". By doing so he will fulfill two roles. The 1st role will be to be an advocate for service learning and the 2nd role will be to promote the book that describes how any child at any age can make a difference in this world through service learning. All proceeds from the book are donated to 2 featured charities namely, The Peter Wulff School for agricultural workers in India and The Maggie Gruber Computer Center in Delhi, India. Both charities serve youth from the slums of Delhi.

Yamuna School for migrant worker children in Delhi, India

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His company will serve under the umbrella of the non profit program, Chess Without Borders. Palash will be mentored by Zein Bertacchi and Dr Kiran Frey.

As a part of his responsibilities he will learn to market, educate other youth about his project, plan and seek ideas from his school and community to advance his goals and sell his product. The sales of which will go towards the featured charities.

The book is available on apple at: https://books.apple.com/us/boo...

Chess Without Borders is an award winning program that combines learning chess with service and philanthropy. The program has educated hundreds of youth to become leaders by forming their social entrepreneurial companies raising over $200,000 for local and global charities as well as excelling as chess players. Recently a long time mentor, Zein Bertacchi was nominated for The Citizen of the Year Award" for the Barrington Area Development Community.

https://patch.com/illinois/barrington-il/heights-creativity-nodx

For Achievements about Chess Without Borders go to:

https://shulmanchess.com/biogr...