Ryan won a $1,000 grant for his school music program after participating in Do Something.

A book lover since a young age, Samantha works hard to bring the written word to underpriviliged populations.

Surfrider member Lulu surfs almost every day. "It's a part of my daily life," she says. "I can't imagine living without it!"

As a competitive surfer for Billabong and member of the USA Surf Team, Taylor has surfed around the world.

Those who can, surf. Those who can't, join Surfrider! Although Kevin isn't a surfer, he admires everyone who is. "They're just amazing at what they do," Kevin says.

When these surfing sisters aren't catching waves, they're cleaning up their beach. As members of the Surfrider Foundation, they take part in beach cleanups and even get their friends to join in.

Rachel started Carbon Cops, a program designed to educate 1st and 2nd graders on important environmental issues and the actions they can take to make their school and community more green.

Kristen is in her third year as a Do Something Club Leader and has worked on a dozen projects during that time. Her project to create a community garden at her school won her a $1000 Do Something grant.

Alexander's grant- and award-winning project focuses on creating a sustainable system to process e-waste.

Over the course of two years, Sarah Jo created the Lorax Lodge, an Environmental Education Center for the Girl Scouts of Camp Blanco in Texas.

Through Finding the Fabulous, Lauren hopes to combat the severe lack of self-esteem among girls ages 8 through 12.

In low-income neighborhoods, there's typically one book for every 300 children. To combat this poor ratio, Mackenzie started Sheltering Books Inc.

Ride to Provide aims to promote skateboarding as a means of giving back to the community.

Through SHARE (Shannon's After-School Reading Exchange), Shannon is reaching young girls in Africa through books.

As an Inspiring Young Emerging Leader, Jessica learns about issues in her local environment, how they affect the entire world and how to address them.

After he lost his grandfather to Alzheimer's, Max started Puzzles to Remember. So far, he's sent over 4,000 puzzles to over 80 health care facilities in the U.S.

In 2006, Kelsey lost one of her best friends to a brain tumor. She and her friends started Pink Polka Dots Guild and have raised over $250,000 for pediatric brain research.

Griffin and his brother travel to Lake Tahoe every winter to participate and compete in ski racing and other snow sports with other leagues in the area.

As a member of Inspiring Young Emerging Leaders, Josh joined their Green Building Tours. He welcomed visitors to national parks and showed them the future of sustainable building design.

At the young age of nine, Neha founded Empower Orphans. A grant she won from DoSomething.org helped her grow a library at the Shree Geeta Public School for 360 students in India.

After last year's oil spill in the Gulf Coast, Matt founded Teenagers Care, an organization that helps teens make a difference through fundraising and volunteering.

Brittney was the winner of the DoSomething Thumb Wars Bumper Sticker Contest. Her "Drive Now, TXT L8er" bumper sticker design won her a $1,000 college scholarship.