Born in 2000
American
Solution created 2008-present
Jaylen Arnold
Problem Background
At the age of 2 years old, young Jaylen began to experience the symptoms of Tourettes. This is a disorder where people will make unwanted sounds without being able to control it. He was officially diagnosed with it at 3 years old. Then at the age of 8 years old he was then diagnosed with another disorder, Asperger’s Disorder. This is when you have serious trouble with social interaction and nonverbal communication. Because of these disorders people bullied him by giving him names like the alphabet kid because in his official documents his name was Jaylen Arnold, TS, OCD, ASP.
Solution Background
After multiple months of bullying he had an idea, he would take his experiences and use them to help and educate people about the respect people deserve and what bullying says about that respect. He would hope to eventually take his knowledge and stream on youtube, podcasts you name it. This would lead to him creating a foundation, Jaylen’s Challenge. This particular foundation is a charitable foundation that he hopes will help raise awareness of bullying and through education and community service.
Connections
This problem is what Tech For Good students are trying to do: take a problem and solve it through technology. Granted this is a much larger scale problem but the hope is that a student in our class will become a changemaker in the future.
Citations
Arnold, Jaylen. “Who is Jaylen?” Jaylens Challenge, https://www.jaylenschallenge.org/content/who-jaylen.
Stutman, Michael. “10-year-old Jaylen Arnold Says Bullying No Way!” InspireMyKids, https://inspiremykids.com/10-year-old-jaylen-arnold-says-bullying-no-more/.
“Jaylen Arnold • World of Children 2014 Youth Award.” World of Children, https://worldofchildren.org/honoree/jaylen-arnold/.
Stutman, Michael. “10-year-old Jaylen Arnold Says Bullying No Way!” InspireMyKids, https://inspiremykids.com/10-year-old-jaylen-arnold-says-bullying-no-more/.