14-Year-Old Wins $10,000 Prize in ‘Kindness Is Cool’ Gan Jing World Event

The electronic billboards of Times Square on March 8 played some of the 10,000 videos about kindness that were submitted to the “Kindness is Cool” event hosted by new, clean-tech company Gan Jing World. Entries for the video competition poured in from all around the world, and 14-year-old Samuel Coggin took home the first prize with a $10,000 award. “I created a video for the Adaptive Training Foundation for Kindness if Cool,” said Samuel, who attended the event with his family. “David Vobora was previously in the NFL and now he made a gym for amputees.” Samuel said he planned to use his $10,000 to build a film company to tell the stories of senior citizens....