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  • Catching Waves and Turning Them Into Electricity

    April 22, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Australia, Perth, Western Australia

    Researches off the coast of western Australia are harnessing power from the ocean's waves in a new pilot project involving buoys. In their current state, the buoys are able to generate a small percentage of electricity for a nearby military base as well as aid in powering a desalination plant.

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  • Making Wood Without Trees

    April 13, 2015 |

    Bloomberg |

    Video |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Green Island, New York

    Using mycelium from mushrooms offers a sustainable and biodegradable alternative to synthetic polymers. Mushrooms produce a natural structure that can be used in building and construction, in lieu of plastics or processed wood products that often contain urea-formaldehyde or other harmful bonding agents. Ecovative Design uses a mushroom-based material to create products ranging from packing to furniture.

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  • Can saltwater quench our growing thirst?

    April 13, 2015 |

    Ensia |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, San Diego, California

    Population growth, climate change, and droughts are factors that have depleted the world’s freshwater resources. Scientists around the world have experimented with desalination of salt water to increase the supply the drinking water and have achieved positive results. In 2015, more countries and cities in the world look to provide desalination, including California’s $1 billion effort to build a plant for San Diego.

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  • Teaching citizens how to shoot better video when they witness brutality

    April 10, 2015 |

    PBS NewsHour |

    Multi-Media |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    With human injustices affecting people on the streets around the world, camera phones have become important tools to document crimes. However, the video may not adequately capture the crime to be persuasive in court. The global organization WITNESS has formed as Video As Evidence Program to instruct citizens how to best document crimes with their cameras so that the evidence will stand in court.

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  • When the grid says no...

    April 07, 2015 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Germany, Berlin, Berlin

    Too much solar and wind power in Germany is overloading their grid. A firm developed a new technology that uses super-fast batteries and software to hold intermittent wind and solar power when more than needed is generated.

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  • iPads < Teachers

    April 06, 2015 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Indianapolis, Indiana

    Well-trained teachers cannot be replaced solely by technology, as has been increasingly apparent at Carpe Diem schools, where students learn largely via computers enabled with educational software.

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  • Fighting TB with a Drive-in Film and Test

    April 03, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Tanzania

    Slow test results make it difficult to stop the spread of tuberculosis. Using faster diagnostic technology and driving vans to rural areas in Tanzania, GeneXpert is making progress in treating this curable disease.

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  • The Rise of ‘Studyblrs'

    April 02, 2015 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Students in today's technical world are now using blogging and other forms of social media, known as studyblrs, in order to help each other improve achievement through online homework help, communication, and encouragement.

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  • Transforming banking for the poor

    March 31, 2015 |

    Wall Street Journal |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    Microfinance started to help reduce world poverty but, in the long run, without bank accounts it is hard for beginning entrepreneurs to really get going and to help the economy. Now that paying is possible through cellular phones, more people will have the opportunity to have a bank account and hopefully cause a decrease in poverty.

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  • How Pinterest Is Revolutionizing Your Child's Classroom

    March 31, 2015 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Colorful volumes of books have aided teaching for centuries; however, the scope of engagement in the internet age demands newer methods for pedagogy. Pinterest, a social media-constructed visual bulletin board, has become a venue in which teachers share their pinned visual media, lesson plans, and charts with students and other teachers. The success of Teaching Pinterest expands pedagogy, reduces teacher alienation, enables collaboration with other teachers, and directs readers to other sites that offer teachers’ curriculum ideas for a cost.

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