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Harnessing CS and Technology Skills for Culturally Responsive and Sustainable Solutions

CoderZ

In today’s rapidly evolving world, computer science (CS) and technology skills have become indispensable tools for addressing a wide range of societal challenges. Technology and computing are in all industries including farming and agriculture, manufacturing, construction, and retail.

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How can engineering address human rights issues?

Futurum

The main aim of this student-led, community-driven project was to improve sanitation in Thastayoc by providing clean water and constructing latrines and bio-digesters for the community. The community selected the option most appropriate for their needs and gave input as the final design was planned and constructed.

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Fire trackers: how can we use modelling techniques to predict where wildfires will occur?

Futurum

This type of fire is deliberately applied to a pre-determined area at the time, intensity and rate of spread required to achieve the desired management objectives, and occurs under a strict set of environmental conditions Fire suppression techniques — the various strategies for stopping a fire once it has started.

Research 111
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What Image Comes to Your Mind When You Think of a “Doctor”?

National Science Foundation

Such implicit bias can negatively impact students’ self-efficacy and achievement, can marginalize students, and create a sense that they “don’t belong” or cannot be successful in STEM. The literature reports connections among self-efficacy, stereotype threat, and achievement worth further exploration and continued research (Sunny et al.,

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The power of geographic information systems: bringing data to life with maps

Futurum

Whenever anyone wants to build anything, they must submit an environmental impact statement to show how the environmental impacts of the construction will be minimised. When I was younger, I always loved math and science. I began my career in the technical side of GIS, but I have been wooed to the social sciences.

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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

A lot of science—and technology—has been constructed specifically around computationally reducible phenomena. And that’s for example why things like mathematical formulas have been able to be as successful in science as they have. It’s not exactly “solving science”, and it wouldn’t even allow one to “discover the unexpected”.

Sciences 115
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The importance of community for reducing social isolation

Futurum

This is commonly achieved by participant observation, in which anthropologists spend time with the community they are studying and take part in everyday activities. The best thing about being a biostatistician is that I can work in any medical or social science field. Study a broad range of subjects to discover your interests.