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Kids Go Global - Explore, Act, Inspire.

Kids Go Global is a place for Elementary, Junior and Senior High schools to explore Global Issues and then work alone or with NGOs to take action locally and internationally. It also supports students acting out the issues using theatre and provides opportunities to share student work and projects. It is a partnership between schools, NGOs and Trickster Theatre.

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Kids Go Global is a place for Elementary, Junior and Senior High schools to explore Global Issues and then work alone or with NGOs to take action locally and internationally. It also supports students acting out the issues using theatre and provides opportunities to share student work and projects.

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Loon is a network of stratospheric balloons designed to bring Internet connectivity to rural and remote communities worldwide.

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SafeShare.tv reduces advertisements and other unwanted distractions from Vimeo and YouTube videos, so they can be viewed safely. Perfect for Schools!

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Finally, someone has reinvented the crutches

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Mobility Designed has created and built a whole new generation of crutches that uses the forearm for support and allows wearers to move freely.

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SafeShare.tv reduces advertisements and other unwanted distractions from Vimeo and YouTube videos, so they can be viewed safely. Perfect for Schools!

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The Ocean Cleanup is a non-profit organization developing advanced technologies to rid the oceans of plastic. We aim to remove 90% of the floating plastic with the help of ocean cleanup systems and river interception technologies.

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One day, gardeners might not just hear the buzz of bees among their flowers, but the whirr of robots, too. Scientists in Japan say they've managed to turn an unassuming drone into a remote-controlled pollinator by attaching horsehairs coated with a special, sticky gel to its underbelly.

The system, described in the journal Chem, is nowhere near ready to be sent to agricultural fields, but it could help pave the way to developing automated pollination techniques at a time when bee colonies are suffering precipitous declines.

In flowering plants, sex often involves a threesome. Flowers looking to get the pollen from their male parts into another bloom's female parts need an envoy to carry it from one to the other. Those third players are animals known as pollinators - a diverse group of critters that includes bees, butterflies, birds and bats, among others.

Animal pollinators are needed for the reproduction of 90% of flowering plants and one third of human food crops, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service. Chief among those are bees - but many bee populations in the United States have been in steep decline in recent decades, likely due to a combination of factors, including agricultural chemicals, invasive species and climate change. Just last month, the rusty patched bumblebee became the first wild bee in the United States to be listed as an endangered species (although the Trump administration just put a halt on that designation).

Thus, the decline of bees isn't just worrisome because it could disrupt ecosystems, but also because it could disrupt agriculture and the economy. People have been trying to come up with replacement techniques, the study authors say, but none of them are especially effective yet - and some might do more harm than good.

"One pollination technique requires the physical transfer of pollen with an artist's brush or cotton swab from male to female flowers," the authors wrote. "Unfortunately, this requires much time and effort. Another approach uses a spray machine, such as a gun barrel and pneumatic ejector. However, this machine pollination has a low pollination success rate because it is likely to cause severe denaturing of pollens and flower pistils as a result of strong mechanical contact as the pollens bursts out of the machine."

Scientists have thought about using drones, but they haven't figured out how to make free-flying robot insects that can rely on their own power source without being attached to a wire.

"It's very tough work," said senior author Eijiro Miyako, a chemist at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan.

Miyako's particular contribution to the field involves a gel, one he'd considered a mistake 10 years before. The scientist had been attempting to make fluids that could be used to conduct electricity, and one attempt left him with a gel that was as sticky as hair wax. Clearly this wouldn't do, and so Miyako stuck it in a storage cabinet in an uncapped bottle. When it was rediscovered a decade later, it looked exactly the same - the gel hadn't dried up or degraded at all.

"I was so surprised, because it still had a very high viscosity," Miyako said.

The chemist noticed that when dropped, the gel absorbed an impressive amount of dust from the floor. Miyako realized this material could be very useful for picking up pollen grains. He took ants, slathered the ionic gel on some of them and let both the gelled and ungelled insects wander through a box of tulips. Those ants with the gel were far more likely to end up with a dusting of pollen than those that were free of the sticky substance.

The next step was to see if this worked with mechanical movers, as well. He and his colleagues chose a four-propeller drone whose retail value was $100, and attached horsehairs to its smooth surface to mimic a bee's fuzzy body. They coated those horsehairs in the gel, and then maneuvered the drones over Japanese lilies, where they would pick up the pollen from one flower and then deposit the pollen at another bloom, thus fertilizing it.

The scientists looked at the hairs under a scanning electron microscope and counted up the pollen grains attached to the surface. They found that the robots whose horsehairs had been coated with the gel had on the order of 10 times more pollen than those hairs that had not been coated with the gel.

"A certain amount of practice with remote control of the artificial pollinator is necessary," the study authors noted.

Miyako does not think such drones would replace bees altogether, but could simply help bees with their pollinating duties.

"In combination is the best way," he said.

There's a lot of work to be done before that's a reality, however. Small drones will need to become more maneuverable and energy efficient, as well as smarter, he said - with better GPS and artificial intelligence, programmed to travel in highly effective search-and-pollinate patterns.

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As bee populations dwindle, robot bees may pick up some of their pollination slack

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One day, gardeners might not just hear the buzz of bees among their flowers, but the whirr of robots, too. Scientists in Japan say they've managed to turn an unassuming drone into a remote-controlled pollinator by attaching horsehairs coated with a special, sticky gel to its underbelly.

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The men and women of NASA are an ingenious bunch, and they’re not just inventing amazing things for space. Which inventions have changed our lives here on Earth?

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Chávez got to know these kids and their families over 8 years ago while working on a waste recycling project at the landfill of Cateura. In this area more than 40% of children don't finish school because their parents need them to work. Being an environmental engineer but with a musical background, one day he decided to help the children by teaching them music lessons. The idea was simply to keep the kids from playing in the landfill.

"At first it was very difficult because we had no place to rehearse and we had to teach in the same place where the parents were working in the trash," said Chávez. "The children knew nothing about music and it was very difficult to contact parents because many of them do not live with their children."

Eventually, parents began to see that playing music was keeping their kids out of trouble, some even reclaiming children they had previously abandoned.

Soon there were more children wanting lessons than there were instruments, so Chávez and Nicolas "Cola" one of the garbage pickers experimented with making some out of recycled materials from the landfill. String and wind instruments are made with oil tin cans, forks, bottle caps, and whatever is around. "Eventually the recycled instruments were improved, and in many cases, they now sound better than the wooden Made In China instruments the more able children play on."

The recycled instruments serve another, more practical purpose: The kids can safely carry them. "For many children, it was impossible to give them a violin to take home because they had nowhere to keep it and their parents were afraid they would be robbed or the instrument would be sold to buy drugs."

The Orchestra had remained unheard of for many years. The launching of the Landfill harmonic short teaser on the Internet triggered a social media events that changed this. "More things have happened in the last 7 months, than in the last 7 years on our lives".

The Orchestra has grown from just a few musicians to over 35. Their recent fame have peak the interest of the families and children of the community in such way, that many children are now enrolling for music classes. The music school of Cateura, does not have their own building yet, but teaches music and how to build recycled instruments to more than 200 kids of the landfill.

To support the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, you can make a donation through Go Campaign. Your donations will go towards travel expenses for their educational tour during our film's US release and to support their programs in Cateura by supplying members with school grants, health insurance, house improvement among other benefits, in addition to supporting the music school. Please click HERE for more info

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Chávez got to know these kids and their families over 8 years ago while working on a waste recycling project at the landfill of Cateura. In this area more than 40% of children don't finish school because their parents need them to work.

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Arvind Gupta: Turning trash into toys for learning

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At the INK Conference, Arvind Gupta shares simple yet stunning plans for turning trash into seriously entertaining, well-designed toys that kids can build themselves -- while learning basic principles of science and design.

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Afghani designer Massoud Hassani invented a wind powered bamboo minesweeper that can potentially save thousands of lives. Mine Kafon is a revolutionary landmine clearer/detonator that is very cheap to make, and could save many lives in countries troubled by landmines.
Massoud Hassani grew up in Afghanistan. As a child him and his brother used to build small roller toys. The two boys would take the small toys out in the hills to play with them, but as the wind would pick up the toys, they would roll faster than they could run. Eventually the boys would have to let the wind take their toys, because the land was covered in millions of land mines. Hassani explained that some kids, would attempt to get their toys, but the consequences to that choice where often fatal.

Hassani fled from Afghanistan at the age of 14. During his graduate studies at Design Academy in Eindhoven, the 25 year old took the same idea that he had as a boy and scaled up his childhood toy by twenty times while adding tools and strength to withstand the power of the explosion.

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Afghani designer Massoud Hassani invented a wind powered bamboo minesweeper that can potentially save thousands of lives. Mine Kafon is a revolutionary landmine clearer/detonator that is very cheap to make, and could save many lives in countries troubled by landmines.

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WaterSeer™ is a modular Atmospheric Water Generator, that generates water from the air. It is a solution for any individual or community. Provides an endless supply of pure water for drinking, agriculture, and emergencies.

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Drilling takes place from December to June during the dry season. To date, WFSS has drilled 349 wells. A well takes about three to four days to build. Once complete, each well pumps approximately 1,800 gallons of water per day and serves approximately 600 to 750 people.

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Deepika Kurup: A young scientist's quest for clean water

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Deepika Kurup has been determined to solve the global water crisis since she was 14 years old, after she saw kids outside her grandparents' house in India drinking water that looked too dirty even to touch. Her research began in her family kitchen -- and eventually led to a major science prize.

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An Israeli mom of a child with cerebral palsy has invented a walking harness that changes the way special-needs kids navigate the world.

Debby Elnatan designed a support harness to allow her wheelchair-bound young son Rotem to stand upright. By cinching the top of the harness to her own waist and slipping specially designed sandals on their feet, the device permits mom and child to walk together while keeping their hands free for other activities.

"When my son was 2 years old, I was told by medical professionals that he didn't know what his legs are and has no consciousness of them," Elnatan recently told the Daily Mail.

Elnatan said that was especially difficult thing for a mother to hear, so out of "pain and desperation" she came up with the idea for the Firefly Upsee Harness.

Related: Donated Prosthetic Limbs Get a Second Life

Elnatan chose Irish company Leckey to mass produce the Upsee and make it available to other parents of physically disabled children. For the past three months 20 families from all over the world have been trying out the device.

Stacy Warden and her 5-year-old son Noah are one of the lucky families who have been test driving the harness. Noah lives with spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy, a condition that has left him unable to crawl, sit, stand, walk or feed himself. Warden told ABC News that using the Upsee has been a life-changing experience.

"He laughs and giggles, something he doesn't do with other walking devices, which he sees as work," Warden said. "I am amazed at what this has done for both of us."

Warden said the harness enables Noah to do a whole range of movements that he was incapable of doing in the past. He can now bear weight on both legs and he has starting mimicking natural walking motions instead of crisscrossing his legs in attempts to move forward. Her hope is that training with the harness will one day teach her son to walk on his own.

One of the most touching moments came when Noah's 3-year-old brother Luke was able to hug his brother for the first time, Warden said. Because Noah was standing in the harness, he was able to hug his little brother back.

"For the first time we can do so many things as a family," she said.

Upsee goes on sale worldwide starting April 7, and will cost around $540 plus shipping. It will fit kids 3 to 8 years old.

Conor Mckernan, marketing manager for Upsee, said that interest in the product is already overwhelming. To answer the questions that have come flooding into their website, Mckernan said that the company is holding a webinar and online demonstrations April 1 through April 3.

"It's an amazing product. I believe it's really going to be beneficial to children with special needs," Warden said.

Related: The 6 Best Rules of Toddler Nutrition

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Mom Invents Harness to Help Disabled Kids Walk

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An Israeli mom of a child with cerebral palsy has invented a walking harness that changes the way special-needs kids navigate the world. Debby Elnatan designed a support harness to allow her wheelchair-bound young son Rotem to stand upright.

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In September 2013, Mexican entrepreneur Carlos Glatt met a 14-year-old girl who was breastfeeding a baby. She was clearly very ill, so he took her to the local hospital, in Guerrero, Mexico, where she lived.

"She had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease because she had been cooking with wood," says Glatt, 51. "I was very upset and decided I had to do something."

Cooking with wood in a confined space kills more people globally than malaria or tuberculosis. The World Health Organization estimates that more than four million people die prematurely every year from using solid fuels and open fires inside their homes.

To give people in poor regions a more affordable alternative, Glatt designed a cheap, efficient 15cm x 15cm stove powered by an alcohol-based fuel. "I had something that people could use to cook inside their homes with no smoke," says Glatt. He sold his tourism brand Piraña Joe and set up a workshop in his kitchen. "My wife thought I was crazy."

The $10 (£7) Glatt Stove, or La Estufita ("little stove"), looks like a simple camping stove, but the fuel is liquid, not gas. A one-litre bottle of Glatt Stove fuel costs $1, can cook for up to five hours and is as easy to transport as a bottle of Coca-Cola. "It's the cheapest stove in the world," claims Glatt, "and it's as efficient as the one you have at home."

Glatt's Tultitlán-based company produced 120,000 stoves for its February 2016 launch. He is in talks with distributors in Spain and Tanzania, but for now is focusing on South America and India. "We want to find the best way to sell, then we go global," he says.

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The $10 cooking stove that could save millions of lives

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In September 2013, Mexican entrepreneur Carlos Glatt met a 14-year-old girl who was breastfeeding a baby. She was clearly very ill, so he took her to the local hospital, in Guerrero, Mexico, where she lived. "She had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease because she had been cooking with wood," says Glatt, 51.

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Lava Mae - Mobile Showers for the Homeless

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There are 7,350+ people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, and just seven places offering showers on a drop in basis. Lava Mae is our response to the appalling lack of showers and toilets available to those experiencing homelessness.

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The Empowerment Plan is a Detroit non-profit that hires previously homeless women to make sleeping bag coats for homeless people.

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We use products as solutions to alleviate poverty.

Fighting poverty with products.

We believe everyone deserves a chance to succeed. Our mission is to use products as solutions to alleviate poverty by meeting immediate needs and creating opportunities for empowerment.

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Simple, innovative products like The Shoe That Grows can meet immediate needs of health and safety for children and families in poverty and crisis situations.

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We use products as solutions to alleviate poverty. We believe everyone deserves a chance to succeed. Our mission is to use products as solutions to alleviate poverty by meeting immediate needs and creating opportunities for empowerment. Simple, innovative products like The Shoe That Grows can meet immediate needs of health and safety for children and families in poverty and crisis situations.

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Nothing is original, says Kirby Ferguson, creator of Everything is a Remix. From Bob Dylan to Steve Jobs, he says our most celebrated creators borrow, steal and transform.