[Group] Ohhh yeah!

[Jake] I'm Jake, one of 40 finalists competing

for the $100,000 Thiel Grant.

It all comes down to a two-minute pitch,

and one life-changing decision:

to drop out of school and pursue our dreams.

This is Teen Technorati.

(soft music)

If you're one of the three million people who watched

me ask Kate Upton to my prom on YouTube,

then you already know I'm not exactly shy.

But in this competition, the lightning round is

so crucial that we all needed coaching

to make our pitches as compelling as possible.

The point of this game is about being in the moment.

When you have your lightning round,

you wanna be sending your message with intention.

[Group] Whoosh! (clapping)

Whoosh!

Whoa!

Then you, it bounces like I'm a wall,

and then you turn around and send it to Lucy.

Whoa!

No, you send a whoosh.

Whoosh!

Whoa!

You're gonna share two truths about yourself,

and a lie, but in any order that you want.

Hi, I'm Andrew, I have been chased by a police helicopter.

I like to watch B movies.

I have seen the ghost of Elvis Presley.

My name's Ryan Orbuch, my dad is 6'2 and my mom

is 5'2, they're like this.

What we've been working on is this app called Finish.

It's the to-do list for procrastinators.

It works because we split your stuff into short,

mid, and long-term time frames.

You add stuff just based on the due date,

and we slide it up over time.

We did 50,000 downloads in the first 48 hours,

which was just super freaking crazy.

For the two-minute pitch tomorrow,

I've been trying to figure out how nervous I should be.

♫ I don't wanna die

♫ Back again this time tomorrow ♫

No I don't have a prom date.

Meet the Thiel finalist bachelors of this year, my God.

[Yana] If you make eye contact with someone,

that means you're dead.

(laughter) (upbeat music)

I have been on stage before,

in front of everybody it's a little scary.

The work that I've been doing on cancer,

it's probably been the biggest achievement I've done so far.

Kid who's 16 is gonna cure cancer,

that's pretty incredible, it's just awe-inspiring.

I'm using automated high-throughput drug screening

to test hundreds, even thousands of small molecules,

for drug candidates that could prevent cancer.

This is called the hula loop.

We wanted to see how they would work as teams,

and how they treated each other, because again,

that's a huge part of the fellowship is to be not a

competitive situation, but we want people to work

together and support each other.

(laughter)

Many people could really take advantage of their youth

by trying out new things, even if some people might

put you down by saying, You're too young,

or You should go to college first.

There you go.

Hey, buddy!

[Yana] Whoa, good technique!

I think the interesting thing about the fellowship is

you're surrounded by people that act very adult-like.

At the same time, these are people that can't by alcohol.

[Yana] We have our winners!

(cheering)

[Jack] So now we're all warmed up,

but as time runs out on the lightning pitches,

things are getting hotter in here.

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