Eli Wachs is a High School social entrepreneur who started High School HeroesX to provide high school students a platform to effect meaningful change in their communities through crowd-sourced innovation. It currently has seven challenges in development, from Philadelphia to Beijing, tackling issues such as low high school graduation rates and environmental issues. Wachs was one of two high school students selected to attend the inaugural Forbes 30 Under 30 Summit, is a member of his school's Cum Laude chapter, was a National Geographic teen change-maker finalist, was one of the leaders of the first ever XPrize Teen Visioneering in 2015, and is the YSA Youth Ambassador for the state of Pennsylvania for 2015-2016.