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Challenges and competitions offer a compelling platform for engaging students and lifelong learners in new technologies and skill development. This special issue explores a sampling of challenge-based approaches to education and community outreach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An Ulster University student designed a website to help manage and deliver digital assets after death. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A student team from NC State has designed a collar to help control wild elephants that threaten human property and life in Africa and Asia. The Web extra at https://youtu.be/aQV_BkOL4vA is a video showing how students from North Carolina State University designed a collar to keep elephants away from farms and villages. In this field test in South Africa, a buzzing sound from the collar causes an elephant to turn away from the protected area. Video by Emma Besaw. The second Web extra at http://youtu.be/ap1dSwCc6fY is a video in which editor Greg Byrd introduces the new Student Design Showcase column, dedicated to innovative, interesting student projects from computer science and engineering. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Students at North Carolina State University enhanced Polymer Braille's multiline braille display by adding new interactive features, additional rows of characters, and a mobile-device interface. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]