Building the Future Today

Building the Future Today was an original series produced for Intel and published on Mashable. In this series, we profiled 11 incredible teenage scientists and inventors from around the world, all of whom are already making major impacts in their chosen fields. From self-driving cars to mapping the coral reefs, these young people are truly building a brighter future.

Building the Future Today was an original series produced for Intel and published on Mashable. In the series, we profiled 11 incredible young people across the world, all of whom are already achieving at remarkable levels in STEM fields. In this episode, we profiled Dylan Vecchione, a 15 year-old from Los Angeles with a passion for coral reefs. His efforts to photograph reefs in Hawaii has resulted in a massive project that documents and makes accessible one of the first interactive maps of a coral reef anywhere in the world. Pretty cool for a kid that's just learning to drive.