Grade 6-8: NASA bans rocket AI, NYC pauses AI for 600k kids, & a teen builds a tongue-steered chair!

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This week on TechCheck for grades 6–8: New York City paused student generative AI through 8th grade — and went into 38 ed-tech tools it already owned to switch the AI features off; NASA's 2027 Student Launch handbook added a brand-new rule barring AI entirely from challenge work, because the competition exists to build engineers, not answers; California passed SB 1119, the strictest state chatbot rules yet, though it isn't law until the governor signs; a sophomore won a $10,000 IEEE scholarship for a wheelchair controller driven by tongue movements and eye blinks on an ordinary laptop camera; Gamescom dropped its reveals in Cologne; and we unpack why scam texts use oddly exact dollar amounts. Civics- and systems-thinking-ready. IN THIS EPISODE