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  • AI is helping school districts navigate bus driver shortages

    January 25, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado Springs, Colorado

    HopSkipDrive is a transportation company with an artificial intelligence tool that helps schools across the United States optimize their bus routes around driver shortages. The company uses a combination of traditional bus rides and passenger cars operated by its drivers to improve on-time arrival rates and reduce absenteeism.

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  • Yellowstone Club becomes first ski resort in Montana to turn wastewater into snow 

    January 18, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, Montana

    The Yellowstone Club ski resort in Montana is misting treated wastewater into the air with machines to make snow. This keeps its ski runs open during dry winters and produces more runoff in the summers to recharge crucial aquifers.

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  • Native nations with scarce internet are building their own broadband networks

    January 17, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Hopi Reservation, United States, Arizona

    In an effort to address a lack of broadband access, Indigenous communities are working together, and with local organizations, to acquire funding to bring internet access to their communities and close the digital divide.

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  • Lab 4.0: Transformando la formación de ingenieros hacia la Revolución Tecnológica

    January 15, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Chile

    El Laboratorio 4.0 incorpora tecnologías avanzadas como la inteligencia artificial, la realidad virtual y la Internet de las cosas (IoT) para aumentar la educación de futuros ingenieros con el aprendizaje interactivo y la resolución de problemas. Los estudiantes del Laboratorio 4.0 se gradúan con mejores posibilidades de conseguir empleo.

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  • The Cheap, Clever Promise of 'Water ATMs'

    January 15, 2024 |

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    Response Location: India, Warangal, Telangana

    The nonprofit Safe Water Network is training entrepreneurs in India to treat and filter water so they can run water ATMs. These businesses supply safe drinking water to communities that lack access to it for about half the price of any other option.

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  • Tidal power: What's holding it back?

    January 14, 2024 |

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    Response Location: South Korea

    Researchers in South Korea and Ireland are harnessing the power from the up, down, and side-to-side motions of ocean tides as a source of renewable energy.

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  • Shining a Light on Snake Bites

    January 11, 2024 |

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    Response Location: India, Muzaffarpur, Bihar

    The addition of solar power mini-grids provides electricity to 50 houses in the village, making it possible for residents to monitor their homes for snakes — something that’s impossible to do without light — and prevent fatal snake bites. The 50 mini-grids were provided for free and since their installation in February 2023, the village hasn’t reported a single snake bite case.

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  • Virginia districts roll on with electric school buses despite lack of state funding

    January 11, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, Virginia

    Schools in Virginia are switching from diesel to electric buses to reduce their emissions and impact on local air quality. With no access to state funding, the schools are buying buses outright, renting them, and partnering with nonprofit organizations that assist them in finding funding.

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  • Children's nutrition program, revved up in the pandemic, faces severe cuts

    January 08, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States

    During the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress and the Department of Agriculture changed the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women Infants and Children (WIC) to make the program more accessible. Innovations included allowing virtual appointments and increased funding for fruit and vegetable vouchers, among other changes. These changes led to significant program growth, estimating 6.6 million WIC participants in 2023.

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  • Pakam's Digital Revolution As Blueprint For Edo's Environmental Renaissance

    January 05, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    The Pakam initiative is taking care of waste mismanagement in Lagos with a digital marketplace for waste and recyclable materials. The app pays households for their recyclables and connects those generating waste with those who collect it to ensure it’s properly disposed of.

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