Learning About SDG #11!
This is my skit about SDG #11 that I have done exclusively for school work where the only quality parts in the video are the script and educational side.
This is my skit about SDG #11 that I have done exclusively for school work where the only quality parts in the video are the script and educational side.
Can you think of a world without the internet, smartphones, iPads, or perhaps the laptop that you’re currently working on? What if we had been hit by this pandemic somewhere during the 90s when meetings over the cloud and Twitter live updates weren’t there to come to our rescue? Sounds beyond imagination? Well, that’s exactly where tech has made us land! The world is now at our fingertips! From mopping up our favorite bruschetta to solving compound calculations, all we have to do is perhaps get online! We are privileged indeed, but is our ability to ponder over a question, comprehend word...
3 Millennials Share How They Were Able to Buy a Condo in Their 20s How This Millennial Built a Multi-Million Peso Business in One Year In their 20’s and already successful entrepreneurs These are actual headlines that I saw from various publications. I see these kinds of articles all the time. The body of these pieces contain anecdotes on how young people are able to achieve marvelous feats and become successful so early in life. They are presented as these hard-working and clever people who found, discovered, or created something that made them rich. These articles are meant for those who are...
I was born in a world surrounded by technology. My school recess was playing basketball on the Wii, memorizing the multiplication table was reaching level 10 in online math games, and putting a song disc in my music player was searching up a song on YouTube. My name is Alisha Arora and I am an ambitious 15-year-old on the mission to leverage technology to prevent suicide. In middle school, I always felt distant from technology because in my school STEM was a “boys” thing and the baking and knitting club was for us girls. I remember watching the boys on my robotics team build a massive robot...
The usage of social media has whopped up tremendously in the last seven to eight years. Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, WeChat, Telegram, TikTok etc. have all found their places in the mobile phones of people. Social media has become so important to people as some of them have lost touch with their families and friends. Apparently having a huge amount of following, thousands and lakhs of likes and followers have become the new “mom” and dad”. Social media was created for socializing and entertainment purposes, not for faking your lives, cyberbullying, abusing, trolling, etc. It...
Being apart of Generation Z, I'm living in the most exciting time in history. Our computers are as smart as ever, we understand life like never before, we're developing at an exponential rate, and we've developed new ways of thinking and are capable of doing nearly anything with the wealth of technology that's now available to us. Technology is no longer a novelty, but now a superpower that 5B people and climbing have the opportunity to leverage. I feel privileged to be one of those people, especially as a young person. I'm Okezue, a technology developer and science researcher looking to...
On June 11 of this year, a viral Tweet authored by venture capitalist Jordan Kong made its rounds on the popular social networking platform. The thread began with the Tweet: “Unpopular opinion: the best thing young people can do early in their careers is to work on the weekends.” Kong then proceeds to detail the excessive stress and physical health issues she endured to maintain this no-weekend lifestyle, concluding that her hard work has brought her “tremendous joy and happiness.” If that sounds like an unappealing way of life to you, you’re not alone. In today’s capitalism-focused culture...
What do shoes, tea bags, T-shirts, and mobile phones have in common? It may come as a surprise that they all contain plastic, and it is not unlikely that most of the items you use in your everyday life contain plastic as well. There are 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic in the ocean with an addition of 8 million pieces every day, and at this rate, we could be left with more plastic than fish in the ocean by the year 2050. I’m a 15-year-old passionate about sustainability, and I have the goal of playing a role in transforming the way we manufacture plastic. Plastic pollution is not news to us; we...
The Times magazine for the week of November 22 included a section called "Best Inventions of 2021." As I read through it, I saw numerous inventions related to STEM. For example, there was a car that teaches kids how to code and a building kit for kids to build a robot hand and learn about hydraulics. These inventions really hype me up. However, there was this specific invention that really bothered me a lot: A Compassionate Companion. This story was about Robin the robot, who spent time with an 8-year-old pneumonia patient who refused to eat. As it played with the kid for several hours, it...
Every day there are billions of people scrolling through social media. We can come across something positive or negative. Some teens and young adults try to encourage positivity, but some can post things that are negative. We as teens should take the responsibility and make a movement that can cause the internet to change for the better forever. We tend to forget the kind of power we have to bring kindness and generosity into our world. I personally sometimes wish that I was born back in the late 1900's just to take that the time to appreciate what I have now. I put myself in other people's...
In today's generation there are many teens that have a job. Of course, they work with adults, young and old. I've heard many stories from my fellow classmates about what they experience at work. Because my classmates are younger, the older employees feel as if they can treat them any kind of way. They force them into doing duties that weren't even given to them. I believe there aren't enough rules to avoid things like this from happening. When teens are working at a job with older people, I think the managers and supervisors should pay EXTRA attention to what's going on. From personal...
Children, mainly teens this day and age can be easily influenced by negative things and fall into traps. I understand the new difficulties children and teens like me have to face at such a young age like drugs, sexual assault, and even suicide. But I'm also aware of the opportunities my generation can use to reach out to and help people going through these things. Most people think of social media as a distraction or a brain washer that makes us lazy, but I think otherwise. Voices of Youth is a part of social media, is it not? I believe people of this day and age can use social media to make a...
Erfan Nouraee is a 20-year-old inventor, scientist and speaker from Canada. His passion is to use technology and innovation to invent devices that protect and conserve our environment from threats. Nouraee won the United Nations’ International Federation of Inventors’ Associations (IFIA) Invention and Innovation Competition in 2021. Erfan’s mission is to inspire others to invent their own solutions and to promote the importance of protecting our environment through innovation. “I am Erfan Nouraee, an inventor, technologist and a speaker. When I was 16 years old, I had an idea to make reliable...
Are there any of us that don't want the iPhone 13 Pro? I think most Gen Z, such as myself, wanted to have one, if and only if it's possible. But as the saying goes, "It's like hitting the moon though! Why oh why? You're dreaming!! You're only a student!" And my answer is that "And so? If I was dreaming, then I wanted to dream high. It's only a dream, you know? There is no payment for it." Gen Z, such as myself, are so unpredictable nowadays. We are sometimes misinterpreted, especially by those who don't understand and who do not want to understand us. If we spend too much time watching k...
Throughout history women have been repressed in many ways, one of them being careers. The gender gap in STEM has decreased over time yet it is significant still. Some people suggest that this is simply innate - well there is a plethora of facts to prove them wrong. Various studies suggest that various factors, such as the encouragement from parents, the curriculum content, and the availability of hands-on laboratory experiences, influence the attitudes of young men toward math and science. If women were to be given the same opportunities, they could achieve great things. The discouragement of...
Some of the most important advances in social and climate affairs in the last few years were made by young people. The youth has been marking their position on decision making, in order to make the world a better place for everyone to live, in a way that no other generation ever did. After many years of destruction and conflict promotion, there seems to be a bigger concern over the protection of our planet, at the same time we try to provide a reasonable and fair life for everybody. I believe that is due to the scare we have that the world ends soon. People get angry about it but it is mostly...
With temperatures rising, the earth is getting much dryer in many areas. This is especially a thread for people who live in areas that are already affected by aridity. The consequence? More wildfires, spreading at an ever fast rate, getting more and more difficult to stop. Thousands of firefighters and volunteers are risking their lives every year to stop these fires. But the work is tedious and slow as they are fighting with the same tools they used decades ago. Basically, they are cutting "roads" into the woods and are that way trying to stop the spreading of the fire. But advancement is in...
Let me drag a story I just came across. At a busy street of Kolkata, a friend of mine was looking for a taxi. The driver being responsible of his duty asked her to use the mobile app for availing a discount. Having no such app downloaded on her mobile, the driver himself helped her out with the procedures and explained the benefits of such services throughout the 40 minutes long ride. This driver is the owner of three cars which he has lent to such mobile app-driven transport network services. Observing the trend, he notified his passenger that perhaps after 3-4 months, no one can manage a cab...
We, the young generation of Poland, still have a long way to go in bettering our lives. The future of Poland and, particularly, its youth is at stake. As our country deals with the indigence that has engulfed its citizens, youth are facing great challenges in various spheres of life. According to World Bank data our country’s general rate of unemployment is 4%, whereas that of youth is at 12% (Meyer 2018, p. 80). Despite the unfortunate rate of youth hiring, there are still high chances of bettering the nation’s situation. It is possible for our country to build a new model of development that...