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Share with Youth: 2025 Drop Tower Challenge: Paddle Wheel

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Due date for proposals: October 31, 2024

Teams of grade 8–12 students are challenged to design and build paddle wheels that will turn in water because of the wetting properties of their surfaces when they experience apparent weightlessness, i.e., microgravity, in NASA’s 2.2 Second Drop Tower. If selected, the youth will prepare their paddle wheels based on provided guidance. The devices are then sent to NASA where they will fall 24 meters (79 feet). Video results of the microgravity testing is provided for student analysis and reporting.

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Resource: Designing for Education with Artificial Intelligence: An Essential Guide for Developers

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This guide seeks to inform product leads and their teams of innovators, designers, developers, customer-facing staff, and legal teams as they work toward safety, security, and trust while creating AI products and services for use in education. This landscape is broader than those building large language models (LLMs) or deploying chatbots; it includes all the ways existing and emerging AI capabilities can be used to further shared educational goals.

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Report: Strengthening the Pennsylvania School Climate Survey to Inform School Decisionmaking

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This study analyzed Pennsylvania School Climate Survey data from students and staff in the 2021/22 school year to assess the validity and reliability of the elementary school student version of the survey; approaches to scoring the survey in individual schools at all grade levels; and perceptions of school climate across student, staff, and school groups. The survey encourages data informed efforts in participating Pennsylvania schools to foster supportive learning environments that promote social and emotional wellness for students and staff.

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Adolescent Health
Afterschool Programs
American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) Youth
Bullying Prevention (StopBullying.gov)
Children of Incarcerated Parents
Civic Engagement
Dating Violence Prevention
Disabilities
Driver Safety
Employment
Expectant and Parenting Young Families
Family Engagement
Financial Capability & Literacy
Gang Involvement Prevention
Homelessness and Housing Instability
Juvenile Justice
Mental Health
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Opportunity Youth
Positive Youth Development
Pregnancy Prevention
Preparedness & Recovery
School Climate
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Substance Use/Misuse
Suicide Prevention
Trafficking Prevention
Transition & Aging Out
Violence Prevention
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  • Bullying
  • Juvenile Justice
  • LGBTQ

A great deal is known about suicide prevention and caring for youth after an attempt or death.

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  • Community Development
  • Safety
  • Youth Preparedness

Involving youth in disaster prevention, preparedness, recovery, and response efforts can help ensure they are able to respond when faced with…

Youth hugging parent after disaster
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  • Substance Use/Misuse

Youth-serving systems should intervene early to address substance use/misuse.

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  • Bullying

StopBullying.gov provides information from various government agencies on what bullying is, what cyberbullying is, who is at risk…

Youth affected by bullying