Youth Beat Radio: The Voice to Empower

IMPACT. 1: The program has aired since 2009 and over 120 shows have been produced. A diverse group of students have participated as producers and as interviewees. -- 2. Students learn technical skills using recording equipment and editing software. Some of the students have been involved in training other students on radio production. -- 3. Students report on issues affecting youth, community organizations, and community needs. The program provides a unique experience that allows youth voices to be heard by a public audience.OSU PARTNERS: College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences; School of Environment and Natural Resources; OSU ExtensionCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: Upper Arlington High School; Fort Hayes Metropolitan Education Center; Eastmoor Academy; Linden McKinley STEM Academy; Columbus Alternative High School; Columbus International High School; City Year Columbus; Barack Community Recreation CenterPRIMARY CONTACT: Kristi Lekies ([email protected])Youth Beat Radio is a weekly radio program aired on Columbus Community Radio Station WCRS 102.1/98.3 FM. It is produced by Central Ohio youth and features stories of youth leadership, community involvement, and action. It is designed to be of interest to youth and adult audiences and covers a broad range of topics including community issues, environment, health, relationships, sports, current trends, and the arts

Secure Execution of JSONP Scripts within a Sandbox

The same-origin policy isolates web applications from each other based on application origin, but can prevent legitimate data exchange between two web applications with different origins. JavaScript Object Notation with Padding (JSONP) is a workaround for the same-origin policy in which data is inserted into a script file included within another application. However, this approach is vulnerable to malicious or compromised external sources. This disclosure proposes a solution that performs execution of third-party JSONP scripts within a sandbox in order to isolate them and avoid causing harm in case the code contained in the script is malicious. The sandbox is created by the use of sandboxed iframes, message channels, and the srcdoc attribute of iframes. A secure version of a library function is used to initialize a sandbox used by the parent page to execute the JSONP script and send the data back to the parent page over a bidirectional communication channel that permits message exchange

School of Environment and Natural Resources Youth Environmental Education Initiative

IMPACT. 1: Participants learn about environmental issues, nearby nature opportunities, and natural resources such as water, soil, and wildlife. They also learn ways to protect the environment and develop environmental leadership skills. -- 2. Team members develop and lead project activities. Graduate and undergraduate students gain experience with planning, community outreach, informal teaching, program evaluation, and working with faculty and Extension staff. -- 3. Students work with community organizations to develop learning experiences for children and youth ranging from Pre-K through young adult. We utilize different educational approaches to meet diverse needs and interests.OSU PARTNERS: College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences; School of Environment and Natural Resources; OSU ExtensionCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: Columbus Recreation and Parks – Barack Community Recreation Center; Beechcroft High School – Exceptional Science Fair; WCRS 92.7 and WGRN 94.1 FM Columbus Community Radio; Learn Your Park CBus; National Park Service – Park Rx Day; American Samoa Community College; American Samoa Head Start Program; Care After School – Worthington; Indian Trail Elementary School – Canal Winchester; The Wilds; Columbus Zoo; Cuyahoga Valley National ParkPRIMARY CONTACT: Kristi Lekies ([email protected])The Youth Environmental Education and Outreach Initiative offers activities that develop awareness and appreciation of the natural environment, environmental knowledge, and outdoor skills

Youth Beat Radio: The Voice to Empower

IMPACT. 1: The program has aired since 2009 and over 120 shows have been produced. A diverse group of students have participated as producers and as interviewees. -- 2. Students learn technical skills using recording equipment and editing software. Some of the students have been involved in training other students on radio production. -- 3. Students report on issues affecting youth, community organizations, and community needs. The program provides a unique experience that allows youth voices to be heard by a public audience. There is a strong emphasis on environmental education, natural resources, and sustainability.OSU PARTNERS: College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences; School of Environment and Natural Resources; OSU ExtensionCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: Upper Arlington High School; Columbus Alternative High School; Barack Community; Recreation Center; WCRS 92.7 and WGRN 94.1 FM; Columbus Community Radio; Juvenile Justice Coalition; Highland Youth GardenPRIMARY CONTACT: Kristi Lekies ([email protected])Youth Beat Radio is a weekly radio program aired on WCRS 92.7 and WGRN 94.1 FM Columbus Community Radio. It is produced by Central Ohio youth and features stories of youth leadership, community involvement, and action. It is designed to be of interest to youth and adult audiences and covers a broad range of topics including community issues, environment, health, relationships, sports, current trends, and the arts

Reducing Risky Driving Behavior: The Impact of an Adolescent Driver Intervention Program With and Without Mandatory Parental Attendance

The United States is a vehicle-dependent society and allows adolescents to obtain driver’s licenses at age 16 or younger. This study examined the impacts of a driver intervention program on reducing risky driving behaviors among youths who had received their first traffic citation, as well as parental management of driving practices. Participants consisted of 243 youths ages 16 and 17 who were court-ordered to attend the Ohio 4-H CARTEENS (CAR = Caution and Responsibility and TEENS = Teens who volunteer as teachers) program with and without parents. Results indicated that risky driving behavior decreased significantly for both groups after the intervention program. Parental management practices, however, increased only for youths attending without parents. Regression analysis indicated that risky driving behavior at Time 1 and levels of parental management (parental control) at Time 2 predicted risky driving behavior after completion of the program. Implications of this study include the importance of adolescent driver intervention and prevention programs to teach youths about unsafe driving practices before licensure

25 Million Flows Later - Large-scale Detection of DOM-based XSS

In recent years, the Web witnessed a move towards sophis- ticated client-side functionality. This shift caused a signifi- cant increase in complexity of deployed JavaScript code and thus, a proportional growth in potential client-side vulnera- bilities, with DOM-based Cross-site Scripting being a high impact representative of such security issues. In this paper, we present a fully automated system to detect and validate DOM-based XSS vulnerabilities, consisting of a taint-aware JavaScript engine and corresponding DOM implementation as well as a context-sensitive exploit generation approach. Using these components, we conducted a large-scale analysis of the Alexa top 5000. In this study, we identified 6167 unique vulnerabilities distributed over 480 domains, show- ing that 9,6% of the examined sites carry at least one DOM- based XSS problem

Eradicating DNS Rebinding with the Extended Same-Origin Policy

The Web’s principal security policy is the Same-Origin Policy (SOP), which enforces origin-based isolation of mutually distrusting Web applications. Since the early days, the SOP was repeatedly undermined with variants of the DNS Rebinding attack, allowing untrusted script code to gain illegitimate access to protected network resources. To counter these attacks, the browser vendors introduced countermeasures, such as DNS Pinning, to mitigate the attack. In this paper, we present a novel DNS Rebinding attack method leveraging the HTML5 Application Cache. Our attack allows reliable DNS Rebinding attacks, circumventing all currently deployed browser-based defense measures. Furthermore, we analyze the fundamental problem which allows DNS Rebinding to work in the first place: The SOP’s main purpose is to ensure security boundaries of Web servers. However, the Web servers themselves are only indirectly involved in the corresponding security decision. Instead, the SOP relies on information obtained from the domain name system, which is not necessarily controlled by the Web server’s owners. This mismatch is exploited by DNS Rebinding. Based on this insight, we propose a light-weight extension to the SOP which takes Web server provided information into account. We successfully implemented our extended SOP for the Chromium Web browser and report on our implementation’s interoperability and security properties

Evaluating an Initiative to Increase Youth Participation in School and Community Gardening Activities

Across the country, youth gardening opportunities are rapidly increasing, as is the need for documentation on successful strategies for working with young people. This paper describes the evaluation of the Greener Voices project, a three-year initiative created to increase youth participation in gardening activities through consultation, resources, and information provided to adult leaders at six sites across New York and Pennsylvania. The evaluation is highlighted to encourage others to think about ways to incorporate evaluation into gardening programs. Useful strategies include starting early with evaluation planning, using an underlying program theory or logic model, collecting data through multiple methods, coordinating evaluation and program planning, building theory into evaluation, and publicizing findings. Documenting lessons learned can contribute to the knowledge base in the youth gardening field