It's Moonshot Monday! Help Youth Identify Their Community While Building Your Village With VPOST!

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Youth Engineering Solutions

Discover how Youth Engineering Solutions (YES), from the Museum of Science, Boston, brings machine learning into K-8 STEM learning through real-world engineering challenges.

In this recorded webinar, explore two YES units where students engage with image classification and text analysis. From tackling plastic pollution to analyzing user reviews, learners see how data quality, bias, and decision-making shape technology.

The session highlights how YES integrates machine learning in hands-on, age-appropriate ways while helping students connect engineering with computational thinking and real-world impact.

Watch the recording to see how these resources can support engaging and responsible STEM learning.

How to Incorporate AI in Afterschool

AI is already part of students' daily lives. The real question is whether we are helping them understand it.

In STEM Next's recent webinar with Qualcomm and Code.org, educators explored practical ways to bring hands-on AI learning into classrooms, afterschool programs, and summer learning spaces.

A takeaway stood out:

"AI does not replace creativity. It expands what students can create."

The session focused on real, accessible entry points that educators can use right away, regardless of experience level.

If you missed it, you can review the key takeaways, find AI learning resources from code.org, and access the full webinar recording in this blog.

As AI continues to evolve, giving young people the skills to question, understand, and create with it is becoming essential.

My Community - Activity for Youth

In My Community, youth can draw their neighborhoods and talk about what they like most or least about the places they live. They can check out Changing Communities and think of ways to improve these spaces to help people, the planet, and the economy. Then, visitors can imagine how these solutions and others could be applied to their own neighborhoods, and change their drawings to make their neighborhoods better today and in the future.

Check out the lesson plan, materials, and training video here.

Build Your Village at VPOST's 17th Annual Conference

For adults, you deserve a community, or a village, too. Looking for your community? Register for VPOST's 17th Annual Conference, The Village We Build: Strengthening Youth and Communities.

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