This weekend will see Lisbon transformed into a melting pot of innovative thinking, as 150 of the most inspiring change-makers under 30 will get together for the Sandbox Global Summit.

Sandbox, for which recent The NextWomen interviewee Robyn Scott is a Global Ambassador, is the foremost global community of extraordinary young achievers below 30. It brings together young people worldwide who have already had an impressive impact, no matter in what field or industry.The growing community counts 600 young leaders in 48 different countries.

For the first time this weekend, Sandbox is organizing an event that will bring together its members on a global scale in one physical location – the Sandbox Global Summit. At the Summit, key issues faced by Sandboxers and the world will be questioned, analyzed, and brainstormed, and solutions will be put into action.

Bloomberg Business Week has awarded Bloomberg Businessweek Fellowships for the Global Summit to six incredible young women whose work empowers other women in a remarkable way:

Cynthia Hellen
Cynthia is the founder of GIRLS WHO ROCK, a crowd-pleasing, change-making benefit concert which aims to bring together the strongest voices in technology, entertainment, and design to advocate and fundraise for girls’ education worldwide while mentoring local student volunteers to be leaders. Read more »

Tammy Tibbetts
Tammy passionately advocates the power of social media to create social change. She is the Founder and President of She’s the First, a not-for-profit that sponsors girls’ education in the developing world, helping them be first in their families to graduate. Read more »

Tiphani Montgomery
Tiphani is passionate about learning new ways to teach single mothers about entrepreneurship, financial literacy, and how to love themselves. Her work impacts communities by taking the single moms out of a victim mentality and empowering them to start lucrative businesses and to give back to their communities. Read more »

Kelley Calvin
Kelley Calvin is the Founder of Lilypad, an events company for young professional women, the Founder of DC Young Entrepreneurs, and the Founder of Michelle In Training (MIT), an organization that teaches professionalism, self-esteem and life skills to promising underprivileged high school girls in the Washington, D.C. area. Read more »

Lina Anne Lustig
Lina is a pioneer in the blue economy – an international community of companies, innovators and scientists that strive to improve the quality of life for all. She is developing the business model, research and a prototype for a new approach towards fertility management for women. Her goal is to allow all women on the planet to manage their own fertility without the need to take hormones and deal with their side effects. Read more »

Virgilia Singh
Virgilia Singh is the co-founder of So What’s On Your Plate, an action focused organization that brings women of all ages, ethnicities and belief systems together over a common love of food to build trusted relationships, collaborate on personal/ professional projects and apply their skills to create positive development in their local communities. Read more »

 “Bloomberg Businessweek is thrilled to award six remarkable women with scholarships to attend the 2012 Sandbox Network Global Summit,” said Elena Putilina, Bloomberg Businessweek Global Marketing Director. “From supporting girls’ education in the developing world to empowering single mothers in the U.S. to fostering entrepreneurship, all of the winners have the talent, passion and diligence that are the hallmarks of an emerging business leader.”