Grade 3-5: Comet brightens 20,000x, Saturn's 10-sided wave, and two teens build a fast help app!

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This week on TechCheck for grades 3–5: Hubble spotted a ten-sided atmospheric wave circling Saturn's south pole, a region Saturn's tilt hid from us until 2023; comet 220P/McNaught flared up twice this summer and ended up about 20,000 times brighter than normal — still catchable with a small telescope around the September 10-11 new moon; two Ontario hockey teammates built CareCompass, an app showing nearby medical care and wait times, and beat out more than 3,600 projects to reach the world's top 15; New York City paused generative AI for about 600,000 students; and we break down the back-to-school scams going around. Vocabulary-rich and discussion-ready. IN THIS EPISODE