About Max Gabovitch

Age: 15
School: Westlane Middle School

Interests: basketball, football, Y-Press

Hobbies: basketball, Y-Press
Favorite Color: green
Favorite Book(s): Last Shot
Favorite Food: cheeseburger

Stories by Max

	Group for youth was a response to violence By Quinn Andrews, 12, Max Gabovitch, 14, Bekie Stergar, 12 As a college student, Eboo Patel was dismayed as he looked around the world and saw young people of different faiths fighting and killing each other. He was saddened that so few young people attended international conferences that brought together people of various faiths to talk about peace. Patel and other like-minded young adults founded the Chicago-based Interfaith Youth Core in 1998. Patel, 3
	Young political activist: Palmer, AK By Max Gabovitch, 15 Megan Waggoner’s first love is the environment. She is active in Alaska Youth for Environmental Action and traveled to Washington, D.C., last year to attend the President’s Environmental Youth Awards ceremony, which recognized her group for its environmental activism.
	Young political activist: Honolulu, HI By Max Gabovitch, 15 Rachel Briggs is a youth volunteer for the Obama campaign in Honolulu, HI. Organizing supporters’ contact information, working at fund-raising events, and starting a student chapter in her district are some of Rachel’s accomplishments.
	The immigrant vote By Mallory St. Claire, 17, , , Pratik Cherian, 16, Max Gabovitch, 15 Pollsters and analysts love to identify voting blocs, using them to explain voting trends and to make projections. The Latino voting bloc has been repeatedly analyzed, often getting credit for swaying elections, such as the 2004 presidential contest in which incumbent George W. Bush defeated U.S. Sen. John Kerry.
	Immigration: youth voice By Pratik Cherian, 16, Max Gabovitch, 15, Becky Mangan, 13 Do Latinos vote as a bloc? According to students at Duarte High School in Los Angeles County, the answer is sometimes.
	Democratic 2008 Convention By Hrishikesh Deshpande, 13, Max Gabovitch, 15, Jonathan Gainer, 16, David Glass, 18, Mallory St. Claire, 17, Sarah Zabel, 15, Millie Cripe, 15, Jordan Denari, 17, Quinn Andrews, 14, Katie Bolinger, 18 Considering how important young people have been to this election cycle, it's not surprising that their journalistic peers have the same enthusiasm for covering it.
	Denver: A lesson in public transport By Quinn Andrews, 14, Max Gabovitch, 15 After reporting from the Democratic Convention in Denver, we realized teens there can be more independent than us. We used the bus system in the center of the city. There are more than 100 bus routes, compared to 28 in Indianapolis. To us, it seems like it should be the other way around, considering that the urban population of Indianapolis is 200,000 more than Denver’s.