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By The Zookeeper in Google —

Google Uses Colorado Students to Test Bedtime AI Projects

The claim: Students at the Google Colorado Impact Hackathon built AI tools like SolarSnap to modernize the energy grid, demonstrating the power of youth innovation paired with technology.

The reality: A multinational corporation got a weekend of free unpaid labor from teenagers to generate sustainability marketing copy for a blog post.

Why should I care? You shouldn't
Corporate PR dressed up as a youth innovation story requires no action from working professionals.

Read the original: Colorado students joined a Google hackathon to tackle energy grid challenges.

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