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Malala Yousafzai, the 17-year-old Pakistani education activist who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban for her work, became [|the youngest-ever recipient] of the Nobel Peace Prize. She'll share the award with India's Kailash Satyarthi, 60, a child rights activist and founder of Save the Childhood Movement. Mayala was shot in the head by Taliban forces in Pakistan's Swat Valley in 2012 [|for blogging] about their oppressive rule. She was 15. The attack on her life only helped her cause to an international audience. "Despite her youth, Malala Yousafzai, has already fought for several years for the right of girls to education and has shown by example that children and young people too can contribute to improving their own situations," Jagland said.

The Taliban shot me to silence me – instead, the whole world is listening to my message now.’ The 2013, 2014 and 2015 issues of //[|Time]// magazine featured her as one of [|the most influential people] globally

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Ciara Judge, 16, Émer Hickey, 16, and Sophie Healy-Thow, 17 The Irish teens won top prize at the Google Science Fair with a brilliant plan to help solve world hunger. The teens discovered a way to increase cereal crop yields by 50 percent, which could have incredible implications for the growing world food crisis.

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