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Meet Ruoqi Li, 16, and Jason Yang, 17, the California teens who built an AI fall-risk system for older adults using a smartphone and wearable sensors; their project won a shared $100,000 Davidson scholarship

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Meet Ruoqi Li, 16, and Jason Yang, 17, the California teens who built an AI fall-risk system for older adults using a smartphone and wearable sensors; their project won a shared $100,000 Davidson scholarship

Their interest grew after seeing family members suffer serious injuries from falls. Two California teenagers, Ruoqi Li, 16, and Jason Yang, 17, have developed an artificial intelligence-powered system designed to identify fall risks in older adults before a fall occurs. According to Davidson Institute, the project, called SafeStrides, combines a smartphone application with wearable sensors … Read more

Meet Angel Marino, 18, whose first flight to Australia at seven sparked an aviation dream and led to a scholarship covering four years of tuition plus A$25,000 a year

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Meet Angel Marino, 18, whose first flight to Australia at seven sparked an aviation dream and led to a scholarship covering four years of tuition plus A$25,000 a year

For the uninitiated, now in its seventh year, the SYD100 Scholarship was set up to support people from underrepresented backgrounds in aviation including women and young people from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. For Angel Marino, the life-changing journey began thousands of feet in the air. Her first flight was at the tender age of … Read more