HEALTH WELLNESS

Physical activity, good nutrition, and emotional wellness is an important part of leading a healthy lifestyle. Our health and wellness mentorship aims to help young people reach and maintain the healthiest possible quality of life, regardless of their immediate circumstances.

EMOTIONAL WELLNESS

Children need to realize that the world is a better place because they are in it. Understanding the importance of personal contribution can serve as a source of purpose and motivation.

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DECISION MAKING

Learning to make beneficial and rational choices depends upon understanding what the decision-making process entails, and assessing the risk vs reward of your ultimate actions. Our goal is to help young people learn to make objective decisions and avoid jumping to conclusions, by examing a decision from multiple points of view.

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LEGAL

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STEAM

AI + CODING

The Combine's AI-Focused program aims to transform how students incorporate AI tools into their learning and research methods. Moreover, it can improve retention rates and increases student engagement.

Our goal is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits marginalized communities by amplifying lesser-known stories, making them more accessible for research and analysis. ZoraGPT is a propritary tool which empowers underserved communities to create and share their narratives, actively involving them in shaping the future of AI education discussions.

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DEBATE CLUB

The Bklyn Combine's Public Debate Program (BCPDP), is designed for youth in under-served communities. A review of essential debate skills, including argumentation, refutation, and note-taking, with exercises and ideas for use in the classroom. How to select debate topics, including topics aligned with selected social studies content standards.

When young people are encouraged to interrogate information, their relationship to that information becomes intimate and granular. This type of relationship to information will inspire a generation of young people that seek context and meaning in their world, instead of just accepting the outcomes of the generation before them.

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RESTORATIVE JUSTICE TRAINING

The Combine's Public Restorative Justice program is designed to examine the harmful impact of a crime and trauma and then determines what can be done to repair that harm while holding the person who caused it accountable for his or her actions. Accountability for the offender means accepting responsibility and acting to repair the harm done.

Restorative Justice has been around in one way or another for a very long time. But Restorative Justice as we know it today is a relatively new practice, starting out in its modernized form in the 70s.

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HYDROPONIC FARMING

Our goal with the Bklyn Combine's farming program is to provide access to climate and sustainability education through hydroponics technology. Hydroponic farming, involves growing plants by supplying all necessary nutrients in the plants’ water supply rather than through the soil.

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TODAY'S MATH

This unconventional approach to math learning was developed by We All Count, LLC, WAR Peace Seeker Academy, and IQ Capital Inc. in association with The Bklyn Combine.

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PHOTOGRAPHY + PODCASTING

Young people are major consumers of podcasts (mostly video). In 2021, there were 850,000 active podcasts, with over 51% of Americans tuning in. This demographic is trending younger every year. Educators who want to better engage students can capitalize on this trend. Kids want to create content in the same medium in which they consume it. Podcasting brings relevancy to every single subject area.

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