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

The Verge

Back in 2015, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said he had started a school to teach his five kids, eventually expanding it as a non-profit school for some children of SpaceX employees. I just wish he would have chosen instead to partner with Oakland or Alum Rock, a school district that serves low income students in Silicon Valley.

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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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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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