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Arab News
2 days ago
- Science
- Arab News
Diriyah Horizon program empowers creative youth
RIYADH: The third Diriyah Horizon youth summer program began on Sunday, organized by the Diriyah Gate Development Authority in partnership with several entities to build youth skills and promote cultural and national values. Collaborators include the King Abdulaziz Center for Cultural Communication, Saudi Space Agency, iLMI Science Discovery and Innovation Center, and Mahd Sports Academy. The program offers hands-on learning experiences to enrich participants and boost educational outcomes, the Saudi Press Agency reported. It reflects the authority's commitment to education and social responsibility by providing a dynamic environment filled with diverse, skill-building activities. Running until Aug. 21, the program features six specialized tracks inspired by Diriyah's heritage and values, including 14 workshops. The leadership track covers debate, volunteerism and public speaking. The heritage track explores archeological excavation and traditional mudbrick construction. The creative production track focuses on photography and filmmaking. The science track includes water systems, soil science, sustainable energy and aircraft design. The space track offers interactive sessions on astronomy, space technology and Diriyah's agricultural seasons, while the sports track features fencing and archery. Held Sunday to Thursday from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., the program aims to shape a conscious, capable generation rooted in Saudi identity. It fosters pride, cultural awareness, creativity, innovation and real-world problem-solving.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Liverpool get answer in deal for in-demand WONDERKID
Liverpool are constantly topping up their academy with new talents to develop. The club's youth program is world renowned and a pathway into the first team has been established over the years which has made a move to Merseyside become and incredibly attractive opportunity. LFC Kits Shop Now LFC x New Era Shop Now LFC Signed Merch Shop Now LFC x Titleist Shop Now Alongside the well-established academy graduates in Harvey Elliott, Curtis Jones and Conor Bradley you can see Trey Nyoni and Rio Ngumoha working their way into first-team consideration. Both players are incredibly young and despite their age, Liverpool are willing to fast-track their development since they are already showing a high level of potential in their performances. Other youngsters that are looking for the best environments to develop are considering moves to the biggest and brightest academies and Liverpool's is one of them. A potential transfer was looked at this week for a new wonderkid to join the Reds and a decision has been made regarding his future. Fulham make decision on Seth Ridgeon Seth Ridgeon at Fulham is the latest star on Liverpool's radar and he would be a significant transfer scalp if the club could convince him to join. He's been weighing up his options this summer. In a report last week, it was understood that the Reds were one of ten teams that were keeping a close eye on any potential developments surrounding the 16-year-old English midfielder. Why is there so much interest in him? Well, not only is he the captain for England's under-17s team, but he has also experienced under-21 football, despite being five years younger than some of his teammates. It's extraordinary how comfortable he feels playing at a level that supersedes his age. And last season, he delivered five goals in just 1003 minutes, which certainly suggests that he can hold his own, despite having so much still to learn about the professional game. In time, he will develop and whoever he plays for will have an extremely useful asset on their hands to deploy.
CBS News
4 days ago
- Business
- CBS News
Teens won't get paid after south suburban program gets fraction of promised state funding
More than 100 teens who worked summer jobs through a south suburban youth program won't get their final paycheck after the program says it received only a fraction of its promised state funding. Dorothy Omokowajo and Ian Walker are both owed $1,000 on their last paycheck, which was supposed to come today. "I just don't have a clear reason as to why this is happening to us," Omokowajo said. She and Wlaker spent their summer working through the Career Compass Project. They were assigned to help a south suburban school district. "I was looking for a summer job, but I was also looking for a job with a purpose," Walker said. "I learned so much being at the district, and I learned so many skills I want to implement when I go into college," said Omokowajo. Yet the pair, and more than 100 other teenagers in the program, received an ugly life lesson about business. "It was like, 'Gotcha!'" Walker said. "I'm very frustrated at the state if they're the ones doing this," Omokowajo said. "I've never had to call students and say don't come to work because you're not getting paid," said Barbara Green-Kenan, project manager for the careers program. "Do you know how that feels? That's a horrible feeling." But Green-Kenan was forced to make that call this week when word came that the Cook County Southland Juvenile Justice Council, the nonprofit that pays the students, did not receive the expected state grant. "I'm upset with our state legislators," she said. "How dare you not release these funds to our kids? The Illinois Department of Human Services offers grants through the Illinois Youth Investment Program. The Southland Juvenile Justice Council applied for two grants, and the Career Compass Project uses those grants to find work for students who then should get paid. But in this case, the funds never made it. James Lyles, the CFO of the Justice Council, provided documents to CBS News Chicago which shows that in April the state awarded them two grants for a total of $253,000. But as of today, the state has transferred only $17,000. "One grant, we didn't get a dime from," he said. Lyles said now they can't make payroll until the grant comes through. "We need to get this money in for these kids and get them situated, and we don't need to leave a bad taste in their mouth when it's all over," he said. The 108 students are owed a combined amount of just under $100,000. The Southland Juvenile Justice Council has been around for 10 years and this is the third year for the career project, but the first time students did not get paychecks. The Council said it's working to get the students their money, but there's no word on if or when that will happen.
CTV News
4 days ago
- CTV News
Edmonton police program aims to help kids put their best foot forward
Students and Edmonton police officers took to FootLocker to buy new shoes on July 25, 2025. (Darcy Seaton/CTV News Edmonton) Edmonton police have just wrapped up this summer's program that partners with youth on a shopping excursion to get them prepared for the new school year. Operation Sole aims to 'bridge the gap' between students and officers with the Edmonton Police Service (EPS), said interim chief of community safety and well-being Warren Driechel. 'There's that lack of trust, because they might hear stories about the police, right? And it's just, unfortunately, the stigma, the aura of police in our community,' Driechel said. Friday marked the last day of the Oskayak program, what Driechel calls a 'special Operation Sole,' that focuses on relationships with Indigenous students. Oskayak is the Cree word for youth. Officers and students took to West Edmonton Mall to buy shoes at FootLocker. Driechel said the shopping trips are funded through the Edmonton Police Foundation and meant to prepare students for their next step. 'Part of it is to expose them to policing,' he said. 'We find, actually, a lot of those youth have an interest in becoming police officers.' It's been 10 years since EPS launched the two-week program. It's free of charge for self-identified Indigenous youth between grades 10 and 12. 'Honestly, it really shows that outside of policing, that officers are just people trying to do their job,' said Legacy Omeaso, a student on the trip. 'It's been 40 odd plus years since I was a teenager and the world's changed, right? So understanding those things is great for us, because I don't think we really understand the challenges of youth today,' Driechel said.
CBC
19-07-2025
- CBC
CyberTitan camp aims to teach P.E.I. students digital literacy and cybersecurity
The P.E.I. IT Alliance is running a youth cybersecurity program for students from Grade 6 right up to Grade 12. The weeklong CyberTitan camp lets students build a computer to understand the inner workings of it, as well as learn safer online habits. Camp organizer Tim King said students he has taught in the past have gone pretty far with the skills they learned. "I've had students who got into CyberTitan with me when it first started in 2018 who have since gone to university," he told CBC's Mio Adilman during an interview on Mainstreet. "One of them is doing IOT [internet of things] research at the University of Waterloo in their post-graduate program in cybersecurity." King said other students have gone into engineering, and one who went into biology said the program had helped him in an unexpected way. "I said, 'Was it ever helpful?' and he said, 'All through university I never had to pay for anything, because I was like the campus IT guy, and I would just help people get their computers running.'" 'Myth' about digital natives King said the CyberTitan camp helps students more deeply understand the digital world in a way that just using a device can't. "There was a myth that came out a few years ago about digital natives, and how students of a certain age just magically know how computers work, and it's not true," he said. "The kids are really familiar with digital, are really comfortable in the media and maybe they're really quick on TikTok or whatever they're into, but if you moved them away from that familiarity, they're immediately as lost as any senior or anybody else." King said familiarity is what makes people think they're naturally good with tech. "When you get back to the fundamentals, like what we're doing this week in Charlottetown, it really sheds a light on what we need to do to build up that digital literacy." He said doing physical computations and going off the screen can be rewarding. "If you take it off the screen and you make it tangible for students, it really makes all the difference." King said that many people don't know where to begin when it comes to computers. "In a lot of cases, people will break into a system by interrupting the startup sequence of a computer, so if you don't understand the startup sequence, you don't even know where to begin," he said. "If you understand how a computer boots, and how it goes through BIOS [Basic Input/Output System] and into the operating system — once you understand that, it's like you understand the landscape that you're dealing with." It also allows them to take control of the machine, so instead of just approaching it as a consumer, the students are approaching it more like a technician. King said this can make people look at computers from another perspective. "It also allows them to take control of the machine, so instead of just approaching it as a consumer, the students are approaching it more like a technician and they see the machine as something that they understand how it operates, and they understand how to tune it to get the best out of it." A digital divide King said there is a sort of "digital divide," referring to people who use tech but don't actually own a bona fide computer. "There are a lot of students here telling me they don't actually have a computer at home. So maybe they have a smart phone and maybe they have two PlayStations, but they don't have a computer," he said. "For me, a big part of this is if we can get people thinking about technology as a productivity tool instead of just a toy. In Canada, almost everybody has a digital something, but when my students come into class, they'll tell me, 'I've had a string of PlayStations, or Xboxes, or whatever and maybe a string of iPhones but that's it.'" King said that parents have been part of the curriculum development, and those of new students are made aware of what is being taught. "What they'll get at the end of the week is a student coming home with some genuine digital literacy, instead of familiarity with a game system." Cybersecurity landscape is evolving As for the cybersecurity aspect of the program, King said the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) in recent years is changing the parameters of online safety. "The people doing cyberattacks are not hackers; they're criminals who have purchased a system and they are basically running it without any knowledge of what it's doing," he said. "It used to be that you would have a hacker and they would go after a specific target, but these systems don't do that. They blitz the Internet looking for openings, which is why you hear terrible stories about children's hospitals being hacked. That's not with intention, that's just an AI finding any opening it can get." King said we're facing a "deluge of cyberattacks that are all automated." In return, the defence is catching up and also trying to automate. That means that the best human brains will be needed to tackle the problem in the years to come — and maybe some of those brains will have come through a program like CyberTitan. In the meantime, he said parents should not leave it to someone else to tell their kids how to stay safe online. He remembers a friend telling him, "You don't step away, you double down," when it comes to children and computers.
