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 peice 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 peice 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 predictative model to enact preventative protection
YouthShield has the ability to report events that are done in person, such as bullying, and other events that can contribute to a student's safety and risk score
YouthShield has the unieque aspect that allows for us to monitor AI chatbots that students are talking to, allowing us to get a better understanding of what students are looking for and go deeper into what types of content they view
YouthShield provides early-warning detection for risky behaviors, sending alerts and showing high risk students and what kinds of risk they pose to themselves or to others in order to alert staff and have intervention before it becomes a problem
YouthShield combines data from online with offline information like grades for more holistic student profiles, allowing us to understand what a student is beyond just what they search up online, and understand what really we need to do in order to keep them safe and secure
YouthShield's data never leaves the student’s device, ensuring complete privacy and security, and making sure the proceess between administrators, children, and anyone else involved stays as secure as ever
YouthShield's model is built a 47mb model to ensure it can fit on any school device, from chromebooks to any other device that may be used, our model can fit and be used on every single one, leaving no school out and no student unprotected
Conrad Challenge 2024-2025. YouthShield is a team of high school students dedicated to creating safer schools through innovative technology and comprehensive safety solutions.