Podcasts about student challenge

Student challenges bring fresh ideas about mechanical design to the table.

High school students Timothy Chen and Aryan Mukherjee, who took part in the Modeling the Future Challenge, a competition that uses math to address real world problems, discussed their project that also used AM Best data to examine how legalized recreational marijuana could impact private passenger auto insurance rates.

Rio is someone who values equality and interpersonal connections, and has a deep respect for nature. She believes that only through working together, we can create a fair and sustainable future for ourselves and future generations. At Wageningen University and Research they are focused on empowering a new global generation of change makers with their involvement in innovative education, cutting edge research and impact driven partner network. Through their challenges and support from leading experts they bring the most dedicated and talented students together to trigger their creativity and develop entrepreneurial skills to create impactful innovations.

Challenges bring together new teams with fresh ideas to solve problems. And many students report that their involvement in a NASA challenge helped them refine their career choice.

Today we are joined by two new Wolfpack members from Buffalo, NY. Brian Bartelo is 13 years old and brother Sean is almost 11. While they have many interests, one of their main passions is space. Brian has an impressive resume already. He has presented topics such as mitigating space debris at AIAA Regional in Buffalo and, most recently, at Explore Mars' Humans to Mars Summit. He was part of the life support systems American team of students for the inaugural Mars Society's Student Challenge with Dr. Robert Zubrin. He is accelerated in his learning and is taking concurrent high school and college credit courses at Genesee Community College as part of the NY State ACE Homeschooling Program. He is hoping to study astrophysics and mechanical engineering at the University of Buffalo. Brian is also the founder and editor of his online school paper "Astra Nova Student Newsletter". Sean is interested in planetary defense and 3D design and printing. He has attended the Henry Ford National Invention Convention two years in a row as a finalist for his inventions and presentations. This school year, he has led teams that were semi-finalists in challenges such as Future City, Cities in Space, and the Mars Innovation Challenge. As a citizen astronomer, he has discovered 17 asteroids. He enjoys drawing, painting, and architecture. He hopes to study astronomy and engineering. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shawna-christenson2/support

This week: Megaphone's weekend of outages, AdvertiseCast Publishes average CPM of 2022, Apple debuts Delegated Delivery, a software engineer teases adblock for iTunes, and The Podscape 2023 is live.  Megaphone has Weekend of Outages Manuela: We start from a story from the holiday break. On Monday, December 19th, Podnews editor James Cridland reported on a weekend of outages for Megaphone. According to Megaphone documentation, the outage started sometime before 11am Eastern on Saturday the 17th for producers. From the website: “We are currently investigating an issue that is impacting content delivery. During this time end listeners most likely will not be able to download podcast episodes. We are working to fix this currently.”  Within two hours the case was updated to reflect the playback issue. At 10am the following day a second outage started, this time as a “podcast playback” issue that ran for over 12 hours, leaving megaphone podcasts effectively offline until 11:56pm Eastern. One of the larger major hosting platform outages of the year.  This incident marked the sixth time in 2022 Megaphone was temporarily unavailable to podcast listeners. AdvertiseCast Publishes Final Podcast Advertising Rates of 2022 Shreya: AdvertiseCast rang in the new year with a January 1st update to their monthly AdvertiseCast Marketplace Podcast Advertising Rates. A quote from AdvertiseCast CRO Dave Hanley in their press release: “2022 was a breakout year in podcasting. Podcasts have become mainstream with explosive growth among younger and more diverse audiences who are embracing niche genres and new ways of listening.” December's overall average CPM was $23.57, a 4% drop month-on-month. With this new information, AdvertiseCast now has the data to generate an overall average for the year. The average CPM for podcasts in AdvertiseCast's observed population was $23.87 for a sixty-second ad spot, a 2% increase from 2021.  The three highest-CPM categories in December were, in ascending order, Business, Education, and Technology, with Technology podcasts pulling an average CPM of $27.  Software dev wants to make podcast ad blocker, charge money for it. Manuela: Last week a Portland, Oregon-based software engineer Micah Engle-Eshleman announced his intentions to build something that, if fully developed, would change the industry: Adblock, but for podcasts. From adblockpodcast.com:  “Finally, a podcast app that skips ads! Adblock Podcast detects and skips ads on all iTunes podcasts.”  While light on concrete information, the project appears to be a web-based application that would detect and remove any advertisements embedded in podcasts served through Apple Podcasts, erroneously referred to by the branding Apple retired six years ago. The project will be a paid service with a vaguely-defined intent to use an undefined portion of money collected to directly pay podcasters via revenue share. On paper, Engle-Eshlerman is proposing his web app would create a new, more profitable way for podcasters to be compensated for producing their shows. He's quoted in last week's Podnews as saying he hasn't figured that part out yet. Which feels apt for the entire project. How would it skip ads? How would a web app produced by one person handle the complexity of paying out millions of individual podcasts? Why are podcasters supposed to be excited that they have to let a stranger's product rip out their ads and give them a percentage of what it collected that month? If a podcast that's on a network has its ads skipped, does that podcast get the check or does the network?At best, Podcast Adblock is a cautionary tale for bloggers and reporters covering podcast beats. Just because an email contains something that looks sensational doesn't mean it's worth giving air. Podcast Adblock has many telltale signs of being vaporware. A paid service based Adblock, a service that has been available for free in one form or another since 2002. From someone with no podcasting bona fides who still calls it ‘iTunes.' Apple Podcasts launched Delegated Delivery Shreya: This Tuesday Apple announced the implementation of the Delegated Delivery beta, which will allow podcasters to publish content to their Apple Podcast Subscription from the dashboard of select hosting services. From the blog:“With an active membership to the Apple Podcasters Program, creators can now generate API Keys from the Account tab of Apple Podcasts Connect, which they can share with their hosting provider to allow them to publish content on their behalf. Once enabled, creators can submit new free and subscriber shows, publish new subscriber episodes, and continue to publish free episodes to Apple Podcasts from their hosting provider dashboard.”  Currently the beta enables podcasters on Blubrry, Libsyn, Triton Digital's Omny Studio, and RSS to try out pushing episodes directly to their Apple subscribers. More hosting providers are slated to be added to the service throughout the year, with Acast, ART19 and Buzzsprout mentioned by name as the next in line for addition.  Removing the extra chore of logging in to a separate dashboard makes the act of producing an ad-free feed or bonus content even more attractive. Apple premium subscriptions were already popular before, it's easy to see Delegated Delivery could likely help make them defacto practice for podcasts with substantial footprints on Apple Podcasts. First 2023 edition of The Podscape now live.  Manuela: Before we get into the Quick Hits, we wanted to briefly spotlight something new from a collaboration between Sounds Profitable and Magellan AI. The first 2023 edition of The Podscape is now live. The sizeable infographic is built from taking inventory of podcasting's companies, agencies, services, and anything else that could be classified. From the Podscape description: “From content creation to hosting services to media planning, agencies, and media sales - download The Podscape to better understand how some of the biggest players fit together on one page.” The 2023 Podscape is free to download and currently accepting feedback. 2022 was a busy year in podcasting and the goal of The Podscape is to create as accurate a snapshot as possible. Any notable exclusions or needed corrections should be directed to podscape@Magellan.ai for the next edition, currently slated for sometime in February.  Quick Hits Shreya: Finally, it's time for our semi-regular roundup of articles we're calling Quick Hits. These are articles that didn't quite make the cut for today's episode, but are still worth including in your weekend reading. This week:  LiveOne to spin off PodcastOne into public company, Slacker possibly next by Kurt Hanson for RainNews. This short piece includes a source link to the SEC filing from LiveOne indicating the upcoming spinoff.  Podcast Vet Laura Mayer To Lead Podcast Creative At ABC Audio from PodcastNewsDaily. Exciting closure for listeners of Shameless Acquisition Target, as host Laura Mayer has landed a choice role at ABC Audio after selling the RSS feed to her year-long podcast project.  NPR's Student Challenge is Back from NPR. For its fifth consecutive year, the NPR Student Podcast Challenge will run from January through April, encouraging middle and high-school students to produce podcasts in hopes of winning the grand prize of a $5,000 scholarship.  The best and worst campaigns of 2022, according to industry creatives by Kelsey Sutton, Ryan Barwick, Minda Smiley, and Alyssa Meyers for MarketingBrew. A fun weekend read, this look back at the previous year features some pivotal moments in online marketing. From catchy songs about plant-based chicken nuggets to people in neon t-shirts being creepy at baseball games, 2022 had a wide variety of campaigns.  The Download is a production of Sounds Profitable. Today's episode was hosted by Shreya Sharma and Manuela Bedoya, and the script was written by Gavin Gaddis. Bryan Barletta and Tom Webster are the executive producers of The Download from Sounds Profitable.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: Megaphone's weekend of outages, AdvertiseCast Publishes average CPM of 2022, Apple debuts Delegated Delivery, a software engineer teases adblock for iTunes, and The Podscape 2023 is live.  Megaphone has Weekend of Outages Manuela: We start from a story from the holiday break. On Monday, December 19th, Podnews editor James Cridland reported on a weekend of outages for Megaphone. According to Megaphone documentation, the outage started sometime before 11am Eastern on Saturday the 17th for producers. From the website: “We are currently investigating an issue that is impacting content delivery. During this time end listeners most likely will not be able to download podcast episodes. We are working to fix this currently.”  Within two hours the case was updated to reflect the playback issue. At 10am the following day a second outage started, this time as a “podcast playback” issue that ran for over 12 hours, leaving megaphone podcasts effectively offline until 11:56pm Eastern. One of the larger major hosting platform outages of the year.  This incident marked the sixth time in 2022 Megaphone was temporarily unavailable to podcast listeners. AdvertiseCast Publishes Final Podcast Advertising Rates of 2022 Shreya: AdvertiseCast rang in the new year with a January 1st update to their monthly AdvertiseCast Marketplace Podcast Advertising Rates. A quote from AdvertiseCast CRO Dave Hanley in their press release: “2022 was a breakout year in podcasting. Podcasts have become mainstream with explosive growth among younger and more diverse audiences who are embracing niche genres and new ways of listening.” December's overall average CPM was $23.57, a 4% drop month-on-month. With this new information, AdvertiseCast now has the data to generate an overall average for the year. The average CPM for podcasts in AdvertiseCast's observed population was $23.87 for a sixty-second ad spot, a 2% increase from 2021.  The three highest-CPM categories in December were, in ascending order, Business, Education, and Technology, with Technology podcasts pulling an average CPM of $27.  Software dev wants to make podcast ad blocker, charge money for it. Manuela: Last week a Portland, Oregon-based software engineer Micah Engle-Eshleman announced his intentions to build something that, if fully developed, would change the industry: Adblock, but for podcasts. From adblockpodcast.com:  “Finally, a podcast app that skips ads! Adblock Podcast detects and skips ads on all iTunes podcasts.”  While light on concrete information, the project appears to be a web-based application that would detect and remove any advertisements embedded in podcasts served through Apple Podcasts, erroneously referred to by the branding Apple retired six years ago. The project will be a paid service with a vaguely-defined intent to use an undefined portion of money collected to directly pay podcasters via revenue share. On paper, Engle-Eshlerman is proposing his web app would create a new, more profitable way for podcasters to be compensated for producing their shows. He's quoted in last week's Podnews as saying he hasn't figured that part out yet. Which feels apt for the entire project. How would it skip ads? How would a web app produced by one person handle the complexity of paying out millions of individual podcasts? Why are podcasters supposed to be excited that they have to let a stranger's product rip out their ads and give them a percentage of what it collected that month? If a podcast that's on a network has its ads skipped, does that podcast get the check or does the network?At best, Podcast Adblock is a cautionary tale for bloggers and reporters covering podcast beats. Just because an email contains something that looks sensational doesn't mean it's worth giving air. Podcast Adblock has many telltale signs of being vaporware. A paid service based Adblock, a service that has been available for free in one form or another since 2002. From someone with no podcasting bona fides who still calls it ‘iTunes.' Apple Podcasts launched Delegated Delivery Shreya: This Tuesday Apple announced the implementation of the Delegated Delivery beta, which will allow podcasters to publish content to their Apple Podcast Subscription from the dashboard of select hosting services. From the blog:“With an active membership to the Apple Podcasters Program, creators can now generate API Keys from the Account tab of Apple Podcasts Connect, which they can share with their hosting provider to allow them to publish content on their behalf. Once enabled, creators can submit new free and subscriber shows, publish new subscriber episodes, and continue to publish free episodes to Apple Podcasts from their hosting provider dashboard.”  Currently the beta enables podcasters on Blubrry, Libsyn, Triton Digital's Omny Studio, and RSS to try out pushing episodes directly to their Apple subscribers. More hosting providers are slated to be added to the service throughout the year, with Acast, ART19 and Buzzsprout mentioned by name as the next in line for addition.  Removing the extra chore of logging in to a separate dashboard makes the act of producing an ad-free feed or bonus content even more attractive. Apple premium subscriptions were already popular before, it's easy to see Delegated Delivery could likely help make them defacto practice for podcasts with substantial footprints on Apple Podcasts. First 2023 edition of The Podscape now live.  Manuela: Before we get into the Quick Hits, we wanted to briefly spotlight something new from a collaboration between Sounds Profitable and Magellan AI. The first 2023 edition of The Podscape is now live. The sizeable infographic is built from taking inventory of podcasting's companies, agencies, services, and anything else that could be classified. From the Podscape description: “From content creation to hosting services to media planning, agencies, and media sales - download The Podscape to better understand how some of the biggest players fit together on one page.” The 2023 Podscape is free to download and currently accepting feedback. 2022 was a busy year in podcasting and the goal of The Podscape is to create as accurate a snapshot as possible. Any notable exclusions or needed corrections should be directed to podscape@Magellan.ai for the next edition, currently slated for sometime in February.  Quick Hits Shreya: Finally, it's time for our semi-regular roundup of articles we're calling Quick Hits. These are articles that didn't quite make the cut for today's episode, but are still worth including in your weekend reading. This week:  LiveOne to spin off PodcastOne into public company, Slacker possibly next by Kurt Hanson for RainNews. This short piece includes a source link to the SEC filing from LiveOne indicating the upcoming spinoff.  Podcast Vet Laura Mayer To Lead Podcast Creative At ABC Audio from PodcastNewsDaily. Exciting closure for listeners of Shameless Acquisition Target, as host Laura Mayer has landed a choice role at ABC Audio after selling the RSS feed to her year-long podcast project.  NPR's Student Challenge is Back from NPR. For its fifth consecutive year, the NPR Student Podcast Challenge will run from January through April, encouraging middle and high-school students to produce podcasts in hopes of winning the grand prize of a $5,000 scholarship.  The best and worst campaigns of 2022, according to industry creatives by Kelsey Sutton, Ryan Barwick, Minda Smiley, and Alyssa Meyers for MarketingBrew. A fun weekend read, this look back at the previous year features some pivotal moments in online marketing. From catchy songs about plant-based chicken nuggets to people in neon t-shirts being creepy at baseball games, 2022 had a wide variety of campaigns.  The Download is a production of Sounds Profitable. Today's episode was hosted by Shreya Sharma and Manuela Bedoya, and the script was written by Gavin Gaddis. Bryan Barletta and Tom Webster are the executive producers of The Download from Sounds Profitable.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When people don't feel like they belong at work, their performance and well-being suffer. But, when individuals can be their authentic selves, the benefits for both the employee and the workplace are substantial. So what can organizations do to help promote belonging and inclusion in the workplace? Dr. Susie Wise studies, writes, and teaches how levers of design like roles, events, and spaces can be used to foster feelings of belonging and reduce othering in organizations and beyond. In this episode, Dart and Susie talk about Susie's book, Design for Belonging, moments of belonging like code-switching, invitation, diverging, and exiting, and how leaders can design belonging into the workplace. Topics Include:- Stories of belonging - Contexts of belonging- Othering and alienation - Design as a path to belonging - Design neglect - Levers of belonging - The importance of descent - Impacts and effects of systems- Who designs experiences - And other topics…Dr. Susie Wise is a designer with experience in education, tech, and the social sector. She coaches leaders in innovation practices, liberatory design, and storytelling for inclusion. She founded and led the d.school's K12 Lab, catalyzing national projects like School Retool and the Shadow a Student Challenge. She is also a co-creator of Liberatory Design. Susie teaches at the d.school at Stanford University and coaches with the Mira Fellowship. She lives with her family and their dog Hijiki in Oakland, CA, USA. Susie is the author of Designing for Belonging, where Susie explains how to use simple levers of design to set the stage for belonging to emerge.Resources Mentioned:Designing for Belonging: https://www.designforbelonging.com/ 

This week we welcome Cora Hallsworth, Senior Associate with One Earth, and Lead on One Planet Saanich. She joins us to talk about the One Planet Student Challenge. One Planet BC helps communities across the province understand sustainability priorities – and take action. Speaking of action, you need to take action too, to get in on this Challenge, as it ends May 20th! The Student Challenge is an invitation to any Middle or Secondary School student in the Capital Region area, to submit in video or illustration format, showing ways to bring One Planet Living ideas into our communities and personal lives. One Planet Living is about creating a world where everyone, everywhere lives happy, healthy lives within the limits of the planet, while also leaving space for nature. Sounds like a wonderful way to live, and something we would all want to ascribe to! Cora shares some jaw-dropping stats on our local situation with regard to sustainability, waste, and the potential we have to change at our household level. She gives you some ideas of how creative you can be in your Challenge submissions. Listen to learn more about the challenge, how to enter, what the judges will be looking for in the entries, and lots more info on this amazing organisation! Remember: May 20th deadline.

The winning team from The Waterline Summit 2021 Student Challenge were invited to SSE's Glasgow headquarters to present their project during COP26. Our reporter Jonathan Levy was there and spoke to the Ron Dearing University Technical College 'Sustainability Crew' Jaden Taylor and Catherine Crees, and accompanying teacher Glenn Jensen, the UTC's Senior Assistant Principal and Head of Engineering. In addition, Kate Wallace Lockhart, Head of Social Impact for the SSE Group talks about the Student Challenge and her role with SSE's Just Transition programme.

Oscar was one of the WWDC 2020 student challenge winners. Learn how Oscar got started on software development and his path to being a student challenge winner. Oscar is young and still has some big choices to make in the next 2 years, but he seems to know what path he wants to take.Oscar on GitHubOscar on TwitterHis app SchoolyOscar's 2020 WWDC Student Swift Challenge submissionPlease rate me on Apple Podcasts.Send me feedback on SpeakPipeOr contact me through twitterMy website appforce1.netNewsletter, sign up!Riverside.fm The easiest way to record podcasts and video interviews in studio quality from anywhere. Lead Software Developer Learn best practices for being a great lead software developer.Support the show (https://pod.fan/appforce1)

How do you perceive people with disabilities? How does your disability impact your life? How do you deal with the stress of every day living? In 2019, we created this story for the NPR Student Podcast Challenge. We didn't win, but we think it's pretty awesome anyway! This episode features stories from Brandon, Keyanna, Joel, Carlos, Elvis, and D’Vonte. We also hear the voices of Al, Mekhi, Justus, Zamire, Juan, and Edward. For season 6 of Power Your Story, our theme is "My Favorite Things."  *** http://www.PowerYourStoryPodcast.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/poweryourstorypodcast Instagram: @PowerYourStoryPodcast YouTube: After School Matters - Power Your Story Podcast *** Power Your Story is produced by students at Ray Graham Training Center High School in Chicago. We represent diverse voices, telling our real life stories through the power of podcasting technology. Each season features a new group of student producers under the mentorship of producer, Andrea Klunder of The Creative Impostor Studios, creating personal journals, interviews, and educational pieces about the topics that matter most to us. Season 6 is produced by Alfred, Aliyah, Brandon, Carlos, Christobel, D'Vonte, Edward, Elvis, Justus, Joel, Juan, Keyanna, Mark, Mekhi, and Zamire. Our theme music is by DJ Sparkz.

Tony Robbins says that if you're not growing, you're dying. Tom Brady says that he's going to win another Super Bowl. And you should be saying, "This semester, I'm getting Straight A's." In this episode, learn why setting Straight A's as your goal is more important than just trying to get into an elite college.

Wisconsin Team Wins AM Best 2021 Student Challenge

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://cherrieswriter.com/2016/06/14/student-challenge-how-did-vietnam-change-our-country/

Have you gone through adversities and felt all your superpowers vanish, don’t worry anymore remember every adversity is your quiz is your final test for all the practicing and all the good vibrations been in alignment with. This is your final test start embracing challenges adversities this is your final way to see how you are responding in your life. See the good in everything!

Dr. Joel discusses the challenge for students to build a success team, identifies the critical skills kids need but are never formally taught or graded on, and the career risks to students if they neglect to develop them!

MTT034| Shadow A Student, CUE BOLD 19 - Devon Young Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, we will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase. The Shadow a Student Challenge is a crash course in empathy that starts with seeing school through a student's eyes. It helps school leaders find meaningful opportunities to improve the experience for students, and take insight-driven action to create change at their schools. #ShadowAStudent Twitter: @k12lab K12lab at Stanford D School website PBS News Hour Video on Shadow A Student   Devon Young began her career in education as an AmeriCorps VISTA, working at a non-profit that matches low-income middle school students in workplace-based apprenticeships. It was during this experience that Devon was able to see the power of inspiring students through hands-on, experiential learning, and realized the need to engage with educators to catalyze change in schools. At the d.school Devon has worked on the Project Fellowship team and the K12 Lab Network, and today works as the Program Manager and Learning Experience Designer for the K12 Lab Network. From leading the international Shadow a Student Challenge to delivering innovative professional development to educators through Discover Design Thinking workshops, Devon feels lucky to work with the K12 Lab Network where every day she is surrounded by educators striving to improve the world around them for their students.   CUE BOLD “The CUE BOLD Symposium will take teachers, administrators, and district leaders on a deep dive into the world of blended and online lesson design.This event will challenge all educators to meet and lead their students in the 21st century with a focus on the symbiotic relationship of learning environment design, digital learning systems, and rethinking traditional lesson design as the essential components to launching a personalized 1:1 learning environment.”   Items mentioned in Episode 34: Creative Confidence Little Bets   The Space, A Guide for Educators - Rebecca Hare   We would love to hear from you!  Let us know if this format is helpful to you!  Is there technology out there that you would like us to cover in one of our episodes?     Email us Shannon@MyTechToolbelt.com Brenda@MyTechToolbelt.com   If you enjoyed this episode, tell a friend, and SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE TO THE SHOW!  Please share this podcast with someone you think might benefit.   What’s in your Tech Toolbelt? www.mytechtoolbelt.com Twitter: @mytechtoolbelt   Instagram: My Tech Toolbelt   You can listen to our podcast on: Apple Podcasts Google Play Music Spotify or listen here Music: http://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

What happened to my kid who did well in high school? Why are they struggling in college? It's more common than many people think! Join Dr. Joel highlighting the common challenge of academic struggle among college students, the psychological impact, and the key skill to recover! For more information check out: www.drjoelingersoll.com

Dr. Joel highlights 5 challenges to first year college students during a parent program. Tune in for Challenge #1 and learn tips on to recognize it and how to help! For more check out: www.drjoelingersoll.com

I speak with Rachel Baxter, a Social Studies teacher, about her experience shadowing a student for the day, her main takeaways, and how she will apply what she learned in her own classroom. Subscribe to me on iTunes so you know when my next episode is released and leave a review so I can continue to grow! Podcast website: http://invitationstolearn.com/ Twitter: @MrsLanghorne Email: invitationstolearn@gmail.com You can follow Mrs. Baxter on Twitter @MrsBaxterMHS

(Photo courtesy of Games For Change, and used with permission,) At Games For Change, games are about far more than recreation. The New York-based nonprofit's mission is empowerment.   Through game design, Games For Change provides a vehicle for   innovators.  The goal: to start with a game, and facilitate positive change in the real world. Games for Change President Susanna Pollack is right at the center of some exciting educational and professional innovations. (Photo courtesy of Games For Change, and used with permission.) Programs offered by Games For Change include an annual "Student Challenge", for middle- and high-school students.   Young participants create digital games with a social impact, based on the issues they've observed in their communities. (Photo courtesy of Games For Change, and used with permission.) In addition, every year, Games For Change hosts the largest social-impact games festival in the game industry.  Their 2018 "Games For Change Festival" brought more than a thousand attendees together to explore the ways digital games can make a difference. And a new year-round initiative, XR For Change, seeks to create collaborative experiences with storytellers, technology companies, researchers and users, with the goal of improving lives. Susanna shared the story of her organization, explained how the Student Challenge works and offered a look at the ways Games For Change is looking to reach even further to make a difference. On this edition of Over Coffee®, you will hear: Why games offer an optimum opportunity to drive impact on social issues; How Susanna first became involved with Games For Change; The story of Games For Change and how the organization developed its mission of creating an impact through games; How the Games For Change Challenge for public schools came about; What teachers can expect, with this curriculum; What's currently being planned, for next summer's Games For Change Festival; The resources Susanna recommends, for game creation for social impact; How Susanna and her staff are working to involve more women in game design; One of the ways a major educational institution is using VR to address a major social problem; How the XR For Change program works; How you can get involved with their work (they produce social-impact public arcades for community events!).

The cyber defenders of tomorrow need more than technical know-how to defend NATO’s networks. See how the Alliance helps forge their skills. Being a good cyber defender means more than possessing the technical expertise – it means being a good communicator, and being capable of devising effective policies to address to rapidly developing crises. As the cyber threat grows in size and complexity, NATO needs these experts more than ever. NATO’s Deputy Head of Cyber Defence, Chelsey Slack, recently helped judge the Cyber 9/12 Student Challenge, co-hosted by the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and the Atlantic Council in Geneva, Switzerland. In this video, Slack explains why encouraging and cultivating well-rounded cyber defenders today is necessary for protecting the Alliance’s networks in the future. Footage includes scenes of students competing in the challenge, interviews with contestants and an interview with Chelsey Slack.

Recently, more than 1400 educators from all 50 states and 30 different countries took the Shadow a Student Challenge. They […]

Last week a a team of students from King's College London won The Cyber 9/12 Student Challenge. The challenge is an attempt to bridge the gap between the technical part of cybersecurity with cyber-policy. The competition occurs in three stages. 1. Competitors receive an initial situation report, and are given two weeks to write a 5-page brief of a response for European leaders. They are tasked to make a 10-min presentation and 10-min Q&A with top level judges (from private and public sector) on the first day of competition. 2. The situation develops in severity and complexity, and 15/31 teams have 12 hours to respond to a new situation report. 3. Only 4/31 teams that are remaining move into the Final Round, where teams must come up with a response to a new development in less than 15 minutes. They have 10 min to present and 10 more mins to answer questions. Sponsored by the Atlantic Council and the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, this competition is the largest of its kind outside of the United States. Winners received a 1000 euro prize, free job interviews at F-Secure anywhere in the world, and several free vouchers for anti-virus, encryption software and cybersecurity databases. Presented by Xenia Zubova With Jackson Webster and Yuji Develle DISCLAIMER: Any information, statements or opinions contained in this podcast are those of the individual speakers. They do not represent the opinions of the Department of War Studies or King's College London.

At the beginning of each year Dr. Tyson meets with all of our Mabry students to review important school rules and routines as well as to challenge our students to do their very best work. In this video podcast, he talks with Mabry students about character, persistence, commitment, kindness, and other important aspirations. If you are new to Mabry, you will certainly want to listen carefully to his hope for your future.