Distinguished Finalist

Audrey Eckart, 13, of Whiteland, Ind., an eighth-grader at Clark-Pleasant Middle School, founded "Lee's Lifeline," a charitable project that provided more than 1,200 care bags to visitors of patients in the Neurological Critical Care Unit at Methodist Hospital. Audrey, who created the program after her Uncle Lee was hospitalized, has raised $4,000 to purchase the bags and items such as bottled water, toothbrushes, notepads, snacks and Bibles.