Overview

• Gastón Díaz and Daniela Victoria Barrios, both 17, were shortlisted from nearly 11,000 nominations representing 148 countries.
• The award, now in its fifth year, carries a US$100,000 prize and highlights students with significant community impact.
• Díaz founded Cresify, a Microsoft-recognized marketing tool, and co-wrote a youth financial literacy law benefiting over 6 million Argentine students.
• Barrios spearheaded a school chess club, earned a bronze medal at Argentina’s National Mathematics Olympiad and advocates AI-enabled AR glasses for real-time transcription.
• Ten finalists will be announced in August with the overall winner revealed later this year.