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Go read this Daily Beast story about a new online school Elon Musk helped start

The Verge

Astra Nova is inviting “academically serious, creative, and kind students between the ages of 8 and 14” to apply, by watching this video and responding via video by July 10th. Dean of the University of Kentucky College of Education Julian Vasquez Heilig said he wishes Musk had tried to partner with existing online education programs. “I

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Student social good startups collect $95K in T-Mobile competition

TechCrunch

A diverse collection of students with big ideas will split about $95,000 in prize money after competing in T-Mobile’s Changemaker Challenge. Robotic rehabilitation glove wins Microsoft’s 20th Imagine Cup for student inventors. Books N Bros (St. Some of these are pretty legit.

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Celebrating Black history and Black futures

Candid

This was necessary, as Black students continued to be unwelcome at institutions of higher education, despite legislation that promised otherwise. An HBCU Midnight Brunch during Juneteenth weekend at the Roots 101: African American Museum , a nonprofit in Louisville, Kentucky, exemplifies this fusion of the past and what is to come.

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The time a human-driven car ran over an autonomous robot

The Verge

This video was captured at the University of Kentucky , one of the four schools Starship Technologies said it’s expanding to this fall. Combine unfamiliar robots with students and faculty who have probably been away from campus for more than a year, and it feels inevitable that there would be a dust-up eventually.

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Here’s how you can donate to support the fight for justice right now

The Verge

According to the website: “Our mission is to use law for the people, uniting lawyers, law students, legal workers, and jailhouse lawyers to function as an effective force in the service of the people by valuing human rights and the rights of ecosystems over property interests.” National Lawyers Guild. Committee to Protect Journalists.

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Finding the Great Impact Story

Tech Soup

We had a similar experience recently here at Microsoft when we heard a story about a student who participates in our Technology Education And Literacy in Schools (TEALS) program. A TEALS teaching assistant for a classroom in rural Kentucky noticed the transformation of a young man involved in the program.

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Funding And Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Youth Programs

Kindful

Areas served: Kentucky, southern Indiana. They believe that by “placing children at the center of this movement, their well-being becomes the focus of their collective work, and with it comes higher achieving students, highly-engaged young people, and a brighter future for Detroit.” Cleveland Foundation. Areas served: Detroit/Michigan.

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