Overview

• Gastón Díaz, 17, from the Instituto Santa Faz in Lanús, was shortlisted by Chegg.org and the Varkey Foundation from nearly 11,000 nominations across 148 countries.
• He founded Cresify, a consumer-behavior marketing tool recognized by Microsoft for Startups for detecting purchase signals.
• He coauthored a youth financial and technology literacy law reported as implemented in more than 70 Argentine cities, reaching about six million students.
• His recognitions include runner-up in a geometry olympiad, fourth place in MIT Solve’s Financial Inclusion Challenge, and selection for the U.S. National Youth Science Camp in West Virginia.
• He says that if he wins, he will invest the prize in free technology education—programming and robotics—and entrepreneurship training for young people.