Dedicated to creating safer schools through innovative technology and comprehensive safety solutions
Our innovation addresses how the rise of AI and online platforms has worsened challenges for children and teens, from harmful content and cyber bullying to mental health crises and violence. Current solutions fail because they were designed for an outdated era of email and web browsing, unable to keep up with the complexities of social media, videos, and real-time apps that dominate young lives today. Our solution bridges this gap with advanced AI and real-time monitoring to provide early intervention where it's needed most. Unlike reactive, outdated tools, our platform proactively identifies risks on the platforms kids use most, assessing behaviors and flagging potential dangers before they escalate. All our customers have to do is install it on children's devices and watch as our state of the art model predicts risk, helps with interventions, and keeps them safe. With machine learning-driven risk scoring and a compact design that works on any device, our solution goes above and beyond. By focusing on the digital spaces teens truly engage with, we provide deeper, more effective protection for every child.
The future of technology starts here. Here’s how we’re changing the game.
We all know challanges facing our communities, with threats ranging from suicide, bullying, alcohol and drugs, violence, or abuse. These problems are widespread, with 30% of teen girls seriously considering suicide, while about 19% of high school students reported being bullied at school and 33% of teens are in an abusive relationship. These are problems that we need to face now, and our innovation revolutionalizes how we protect our students. Our state of the art risk detection and scoring systems allow for staff and guidence councelors to intervene and protect students from problems like these before they have a chance to hurt. Our systems point out which children are at high risk and for what, allowing staff and teachers to get students the help they need. Our product is the top choice for a number of reasons, with current solutions only offering to filter text content or block websites. Where we shine is our ability to filter video content and AI chatbot content, along with the ability to combine offline and online statistics to get a full picture of a student through grades, attendance, and online activity, keeping every child safe.
YouthShield is a service designed to monitor and filter web searches, sifting through content that nobody else can to provide the best risk assessment and preventative measures
We filter content through 345 granular categories to ensure every piece of content is being monitored and labeled
YouthShield scans across all types of content, ranging from web searches to videos, and from chatbots to audio, ensuring we cover every piece of content students are consuming
YouthShield calculates a risk score for every student based on content consumed and external factors, leading to an accurate and predictive model to enact preventative protection
Our services include custom risk assessment and detection for students visiting and viewing risky content, allowing for quick intervention and prevention
Our systems are built around the problems we try to solve, ranging from drugs to alcohol and violence detection, we cover all sorts of risky behavior, ensuring each child is safe
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Our systems do things no one else does, cover all types of content. While web filters and blockers do just that, filter and block, we view each type of content, even things regular web detection can't see such as videos and chatbot prompts, leading to more personalized and better web security
Our track record of success and satisfied schools speaks to our commitment to excellence in school safety
10th Grade, Saratoga High School
10th Grade, Saratoga High School
9th Grade, Harker High School
9th Grade, Harker High School
Conrad Challenge 2024-2025.
YouthShield is a team of high school students dedicated to creating safer schools through innovative technology and comprehensive safety solutions.