Philly daily roundup: $100k to teen tech nonprofits; $12M grant for Penn Engineering; Museum of the American Revolution’s 3D-printed models

This nonprofit will grant $100k to teen tech

Supervised learning, unsupervised learning and reinforcement learning. These are the three main types of machine learning algorithms used to evaluate data — and you’ll become an expert on all of them if you sign up for Penn State Malvern’s new Master of AI.

You can opt to complete the 33-credit degree program in as little as 12 months, or attend part time over two years or longer. Courses are delivered in an in-person/online hybrid format, at a school that US News & World Report ranks in the top 10 for online programs. Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

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News Incubator: What else to know today

• The Museum of the American Revolution created 3D-printed, touchable scale models of George Washington’s tents to increase the exhibit’s accessibility for people with visual disabilities. [Museum of the American Revolution]

• University of Pennsylvania researchers found racial disparities in who receives CAR T-cell therapy as a cancer treatment. Philadelphia is known as the home of the first FDA approved CAR T-cell therapy for blood cancer, developed by Dr. Carl June. [The Inquirer/Technical.ly]

• Penn Engineering received a $12 million grant from the National Science Foundation along with Harvard University to research environmentally sustainable computing. [Penn Engineering/Technical.ly]

• National organization the Evoluer House is accepting applications for its summer program teaching teen girls about financial literacy, applying for college and career building. [The Evoluer House]

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Sarah Huffman is a 2022-2024 corps member for Report for America, an initiative of The Groundtruth Project that pairs young journalists with local newsrooms. This position is supported by the Lenfest Institute for Journalism.