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  • Tidal kites: New technology harnessing ocean energy

    June 25, 2024 |

    BBC |

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    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: Faroe Islands

    The renewable energy technology company Minesto developed tidal kites that generate electricity from ocean tides. The machines are attached to the seabed and pushed through the water in a figure 8 pattern. The movement spins a turbine that generates electricity.

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  • Homeschoolers Embrace AI, Even As Many Educators Keep It at Arms' Length

    June 25, 2024 |

    The 74 |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Homeschools and microschools are embracing artificial intelligence as a tool to help students explore advanced topics, tailor learning to the student, and make organizing a curriculum easier.

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  • The best plan to help refugees might also be the simplest

    June 23, 2024 |

    Vox |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi

    The nonprofit GiveDirectly provides refugees with cash to help them sustain themselves, focusing on those living in cities, as they’re less likely to receive the same assistance as humanitarian camps do. Nearly 1,200 people were given $925 to spend however they wanted — some opening bank accounts, others starting businesses — and reported they were able to nearly double their monthly income and after six months, 88% of recipients were earning more money than ever before.

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  • What one Utah student learned in Hope Squad helped her save a friend's life

    June 21, 2024 |

    The Salt Lake Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

    The Hope Squad teaches students how to advocate for themselves and their peers and teaches the question, persuade, refer (QPR) approach to navigating mental health. While the students aren’t trained therapists, they help their peers get the mental health support they need. Over the years the program has referred thousands of students to mental healthcare professionals and decreased the rate of suicide in the school district.

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  • Could the Mississippi River benefit from Chesapeake Bay's strategy to improve water quality?

    June 21, 2024 |

    Wisconsin Watch |

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    Response Location: United States

    A unique regional cleanup program was designed to reduce the nutrient runoff in the Chesapeake Bay using a legally-enforceable pollution quota across six U.S. states.

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  • Meet the 'New' Scientists Engineering Uganda's Future

    June 20, 2024 |

    Solutions Now Africa |

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    Response Location: Uganda, Ntinda-Kampala

    Young Engineers is a STEM education program that helps children build technical skills and knowledge through hands-on activities with a focus on problem-solving. The organization is women-led, and the majority of its 800 participants are girls.

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  • The opportunity gap should close, so Boston schools seek answers

    June 20, 2024 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Dorchester, Massachusetts

    To help close achievement and opportunity gaps for marginalized students, schools like Joseph Lee K-8 School are trying to take a more holistic approach to education, offering services and supports that help address the barriers students face outside of the classroom. The school has a free store with essential goods, an occupational therapist, mental health counselors, and a coordinator from an organization called City Connects whose goal is to evaluate students’ needs and help them get access to support, from Medicaid benefits to stable housing.

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  • At the independent schools in Boston, parents offer solutions

    June 20, 2024 |

    The Boston Globe |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Community schools such as Paige Academy and Roxbury Roots build on a long legacy of independent schools that sprouted as a way to better serve Black students who were often left behind by the public school system. Families say their children are able to be more engaged and at ease in a culturally competent environment that pays close attention to students’ needs.

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  • Alhambra neighbors work together to help those less fortunate

    June 20, 2024 |

    KNXV-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Under 3 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    Volunteers and neighborhood residents gather at the Alhambra Beloved Community Church in Phoenix, Arizona, each week to provide meals, showers, and a place to get out of the summer heat to people who need it.

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  • An experiment doled out money to homeless people in Denver, no strings attached. Here's what happened.  

    June 19, 2024 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    The Denver Basic Income Project provided people experiencing homelessness with no-strings-attached monthly stipends that they could spend however they’d like. At the end of the pilot, twice as many participants were in stable housing, more of them were working full time, and the nights that participants spent in shelters decreased by half.

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