Trends in youth climate change research highlight strengths and areas of improvement in canadian STEM outreach programs
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Climate change research and environmental activism are critical to the long-term health and safety of all people. Canadian populations face considerable risk from events such as coastal erosion, forest fires, droughts, and more. Youth climate activism is experiencing a zeitgeist which may positively impact research in this area. This paper explores publication trends in the Canadian Science Fair Journal to explore the locations, age groups, research topics and other key factors of science fair reports published between 2018 and 2022. From this analysis, we conclude that Canadian youth are keenly aware of how their research can generate solutions to climate change, and that they approach the issue from many perspectives. However, efforts must be made to further mobilize specific provinces, provide avenues for entrepreneurship, and increase networking to foster the next generation of Canadian climate scientists.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.028 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.012 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it