Little Buddy’s Eco Team
Jun01

Little Buddy’s Eco Team

By: Alex Silverman James Roy presents Little Buddy Joins the Eco Team, a short film about reducing, reusing, recycling, and thinking ecologically. Little Buddy is a young bug whose TV has stopped working, but he is soon visited by Eco the Butterfly and the Eco Team, who help teach him all about being green. The twelve-minute short uses a mix of live-action segments, full-body costumes, puppets, and animated scenes. While the film is...

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Root of Life: Helping a Community Grow Through Healthy Food
Jun01

Root of Life: Helping a Community Grow Through Healthy Food

By Emily Brooks In the informative documentary Root of Life by director Laura Nguyen, the audience hears Dr. Nika Tsato Kax’Oxo speak about and teach the importance of healthy food, Ivy Flores express her concern with keeping Belizean culture alive through food, and Dr. Tehu Kax’Oxo II emphasize the need to take care of the environment and maintain the biodiversity of the rainforest and its foods. I thought this short film was well...

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Taming Flames: Curbing Wildfire Devastation
Jun01

Taming Flames: Curbing Wildfire Devastation

By: Nikita Harris Wildfires due to climate change affect everyone in the country on some level. It’s the responsibility of all of society to take the necessary actions to reduce carbon emissions and combat climate change. Taming Flames by Ford Melillo is a highly informative film that presents the issues and offers some solutions for dangerous wildfires. The information is presented in a way that emphasizes both the need for change...

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Claude’s Constitution: A New Approach to Safe AI
Jun01

Claude’s Constitution: A New Approach to Safe AI

By: Alex SIlverman Anthropic: What Do You Know About Claude’s Constitution? is produced by Ailin Velazquez with narration by Gabrielle Scott for Planet Classroom’s Problem Solver series. In the rapidly evolving field of AI, one company stands out for doing things differently. Anthropic, an AI safety and research company, has created a “constitution” for its AI, “Claude,” to follow. This AI will have...

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Echoes of Peace: Calls for Resolution Amid the Gaza Conflict
Jun01

Echoes of Peace: Calls for Resolution Amid the Gaza Conflict

By Emily Brooks Echoes of Peace: A Journey Through the Arab-Israeli Conflict is an impactful and emotional film by Hunter Harrell that traverses the history of the Middle East through quotes. The sheer number of calls for peace, and those calling for it, paints a vivid picture of how long this conflict has persisted. I was deeply affected after watching this short film. Given the topic’s relevance and my own interest, I was...

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