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Attendance tracking program helps combat chronic absenteeism

Mariah Thomas

March 19, 2024 |

Ashland Source |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Ontario, Ohio

A specialized software called AttendanceK12 helps school secretaries, attendance counselors, and administrators more easily track student absences so they can intervene with families sooner, even offering options to automatically send parents an email when students reach a certain threshold of missed school hours. School leaders consider the technology an important element of a strategy that has helped reduce chronic absenteeism rates.

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The Smart Heart: How AI Is Sharpening Cardiovascular Medicine

Michaela Haas

March 01, 2024 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Rochester, Minnesota

Several hospitals are beginning to use artificial intelligence, like Chat GPT’s medical assistant Suzanne, to make cardiovascular medicine more accurate and effective. AI can detect illnesses that are hard to see with the human eye, interpret test results and make diagnoses quicker and help doctors provide more effective treatment to patients. Since AI emerged in healthcare in 2018, the FDA has approved about 700 AI and machine learning-enabled medical devices.

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Online game educating Africans on Climate Change

Ibrahim Khalilulahi Usman

February 18, 2024 |

African Change Stories |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: Ghana

Agric Connect is raising climate change awareness in Ghana with a video game called “The Planet Saver.” The game is structured like a quiz and incorporates a leaderboard, social sharing and a forum to ask experts questions.

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The US military is embedded in the gaming world. Its target: teen recruits

Rosa Schwartzburg

February 14, 2024 |

The Guardian |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States

The military is leveraging video games and esports teams to drive recruitment and build community among service members. Military gaming projects like Goats & Glory and Air Force Gaming help service members connect with youth and provide a safe, relaxed space for soldiers to improve their mental health and connect with each other.

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AI is helping school districts navigate bus driver shortages

Alex Fitzpatrick

January 25, 2024 |

Axios |

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Under 800 Words

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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When you're young, lonely, and chronically ill, online communities are a lifeline

Julia Métraux

November 13, 2023 |

Mother Jones |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States

Online gaming communities are helping people who live with chronic illness by providing forums for social connection and emotional solidarity. The multiplayer game Animal Crossing, for example, helped people meet basic psychological needs during lockdowns.

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This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI

Melissa Heikkilä

October 23, 2023 |

MIT Technology Review |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

Nightshade is a new tool designed to fight against AI companies that use artists’ work to train their models without permission. Nightshade “poisons” the training data to essentially confuse the AI model and prevent it from copying an artist’s work. The purpose of Nightshade is to return the power to artists to protect their intellectual property and prevent large AI companies like Google and Meta from taking advantage of them.

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New data tracking felony domestic violence cases in Winnebago County shows high conviction rates

Kevin Haas

October 23, 2023 |

Rock River Current |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Rockford, Illinois

Prosecutors in Winnebago County, Illinois, are using evidence-based prosecution to increase the number of felony domestic violence cases that end in a conviction. This practice relies on physical evidence like phone and medical records instead of testimony from survivors.

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How artificial intelligence plus local expertise can promote ‘good fire' in Montana

Bowman Leigh

September 21, 2023 |

Montana Free Press |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Montana

The Potential Operational Delineations (PODs) framework combines analytics and local expertise to assess fire risk by marking out locations on a map where fire can best be stopped. The risk is then used to identify where best to suppress the fire and where it can continue to burn to benefit the environment and prevent future fires. From there, experts decide how to respond to a fire in each section of the map in advance, which can also include prevention tactics.

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Sexual assault survivors can now track their rape kits in most states

Amanda Hernández

September 08, 2023 |

Stateline |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States

States across the United States are implementing online portals for tracking sexual assault kits through the testing process. These systems are proven to reduce the massive backlogs of kits and ensure timely processing.

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