Population Education

Our next Energy honorable mention: Maisarah Aminah Dombrowski from Pennsbury School District in PA!

After discovering that energy poverty is common across rural towns in the United States, Maisarah was determined to create a video emphasizing the importance of energy microgrids. 🌞🏡

Explore Maisarah’s video and read her bio ➡️ https://hubs.ly/Q04jdy580

✨ Honorable Mention time! ✨ Anie Udofia, from William Aberhart High School in Calgary, Alberta, shows how AI data centers can be more sustainable with liquid immersion cooling, a solution that's based on a century-old technique. 🧑‍💻❄️

Learn more about the sustainable solution and the creator herself ⏯️ https://hubs.ly/Q04jd1r40

💫 Viaan Bachalakuri, Eric Yan, Arjun Reddy, and Karthik Tummala worked together to create the winning Middle School second-place video for Wetlands!

The four students from Nelson Middle School in Frisco, Texas shed light on paludiculture and the many benefits the wetland solution brings from flood prevention to storing more carbon. 🌳

Watch their video and read the team’s bio here ▶️
https://hubs.ly/Q04hSZT70

Featuring our second place Wetlands winner: Anay Pradhan from The International School of The Hague - ISH Official in the Netherlands:

Anay promotes the importance of paludiculture, or rewetting wetland areas to farm and protect wildlife, to avoid the destruction of peatlands, which cover 3% of the world’s surface. 🌱🧺

Learn more about paludiculture and the creator himself ⏩ https://www.worldof8billion.org/video-winner/breathing-under-pressure/

Ada Ngai and Jonathan Wang are our second place Middle School winners from Juan Cabrillo Middle School for Economics!

Using hand-made cardboard cut-outs and stop-motion video, the pair shows how economies thrive when governments invest in children’s education worldwide 🌍🎓

Check out their video and read Ada and Jonathan’s bio here ▶️ https://www.worldof8billion.org/video-winner/economic-growth-through-education-to-overcome-child-labor/

Our second place high school winner, Matthew Park from the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) Official Site focused on housing inequities for his Economics video.

Matthew highlights the value of community land trusts (CLTs) to tackle homelessness and unstable housing prices in the United States. 🏘️📜

Watch Matthew’s video and learn about the amazing organizations he’s kickstarted ➡️ https://www.worldof8billion.org/video-winner/future-of-housing/

"Sand Batteries: Powering the Way to a Sustainable Future" was created by our second place Energy winners, Karis Tseng and Anika Chandak from Juan Cabrillo Middle School in Santa Clara, CA!

Karis and Anika discovered that sand batteries are a new and growing renewable energy source that could help those in energy poverty. 🏖️🔋

Explore their video and learn more about the creators! ▶️ https://hubs.ly/Q04hWZ-V0

🌟🌎Kicking off our spotlights for our second place winners featuring Zening Zhao from Saddle River Day School in NJ who won in the high school division for Energy.

Creating detailed animations and filming throughout New York City, Zening inspires viewers to take mass transportation to reduce our energy footprints. 🚆

Watch Zening’s creative video and read his bio ⏩https://hubs.ly/Q04hT0CW0

🗳️ Voting maps are changing—fast. But do students understand why?

From gerrymandering tactics like “cracking” and “packing” to recent Supreme Court decisions weakening the Voting Rights Act, today’s redistricting battles are reshaping representation across the U.S.

👉 Bring this critical issue into your classroom and help students connect the dots between population, power, and participation.
https://populationeducation.org/teaching-about-the-current-redistricting-wars/

Teaching the Redistricting Wars: Voting Rights & Democracy Explore the redistricting wars, and the Supreme Court’s impact on the Voting Rights Act with engaging classroom activities for high school students.

Sanjit Kodumuri is our first place middle school winner for wetlands from Pioneer Heritage Middle School in Frisco, TX!

Passionate about protecting our environment and wetland organisms, Sanjit created his own clay model of a living shoreline, a growing solution to coastal wetland degradation and erosion. 🌿💧

See Sanjit’s clay model and learn more about the winner here → https://hubs.ly/Q04hl3PV0

High school students Matty Perkins and Teagan Vanoni from Rancho Campana High School in Camarillo, CA, earned first place with their wetlands video, Settling, for a Pond! 🦆💧

After discovering that their county is a pioneer for creating settling ponds, a sustainable solution against wetland destruction, Matty and Teagan spent an entire day filming and showcasing different settling ponds in their area.

Explore the different ponds featured in their video and learn more about our pond-loving winners! → https://hubs.ly/Q04hl5T10