youtube-nocookie.com and open.spotify.com, or use the options below.This week on TechCheck for grades 9–12: Character.AI filed for Chapter 11 to sell its assets, with Disney's $20M stalking-horse bid for a license to some IP and experts asking what happens to users' chats; Python 3.15 shipped with UTF-8 by default, explicit lazy imports, a faster experimental JIT and the whatsnewt text adventure; Yuji Horii built a playable mystery game by instructing AI in about 30 minutes; Check Point's data put education at 6,656 attacks per organization per week as ransomware hit Japan; and Technovation's 2026 champions, led by Kazakhstan's SAMRUQ.AI. CS-, debate- and career-ready. IN THIS EPISODE
A reusable 9–12 worksheet and a copy-your-own Google Form. Same template every week, so students learn the routine once.
5 quick polls, a story-of-the-week vote, and a 4-question quiz. Answers are anonymous and count toward your class on the grade-band leaderboard. This one has closed — results and answers are up.
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