"T his whole experience has given me the confidence that what I'm doing is actually good," said Ben Clark. Ben, 15, is a Project XL winner. He received best of show and first place in original music for his song "30 a Day," about gun violence in the United States. "I wrote the whole thing in about a half an hour," said the student from Floyds Knobs. Project XL, a statewide high-school competition

"I ran into the stereotype in Europe a lot that Americans never took the time to learn anything else (besides English). And I think it's nice to be able to sort of break through that stereotype," said Amy Laburda, 17. Last summer, Amy spent seven weeks abroad with the Indiana University Honors Program in Foreign Languages. Since 1962, the program has sent about 120 students every summer to foreign

Many teenagers are interested in fashion, at least as a hobby. But where would you go to learn if you wanted to make fashion a career? The High School of Fashion Industries, in New York City, is the only high school in the eastern United States to provide occupational classes in fashion as well as a complete academic program for its students. The public school is open to all city residents. Studen