Podcast Series: Control, Alt, Innovate: Perspectives on Technological Advancements
Podcast Title: 	Understandings of New Technology: Artificial Intelligence
Producer: 	Karina Berceanu (Class of 2028)
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Karina Berceanu, Narrator 

In the past few years, society has seen an incredible rise in artificial intelligence technology - a development that has forced almost all fields to adapt while sparking global debate about the role of artificial intelligence in our lives. In late 2022, Open AI released ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence tool that, as of August 2025, hit a benchmark of 700 million weekly users. As astutely noted by Stanford University’s 2025 Artificial Intelligence Index Report, “AI is rapidly moving from the lab to daily life.”

However, artificial intelligence is just the latest technological change that has led society to readjust our ways of living. In the past century, changes in telecommunications, media forms, transportation, agriculture, computing, and health technology have redefined our systems and habits. In this podcast series, Control, Alt, Innovate: Perspectives on Technological Advancements, this Uni High Oral History Project sets out to understand how the rise of new technologies have impacted our lives over the past century.

From Uni High, I’m Karina Berceanu, a member of the Class of 2028.

In this podcast, Understandings of New Technology: Artificial Intelligence, we shift our focus to technological changes happening today, particularly in artificial intelligence. As a scientific discipline, artificial intelligence–now commonly referred to as AI–can be traced back to computer pioneer Alan Turing and his theory of computation in 1935. The field focuses on how computational systems can perform tasks related to human intelligence, including learning, decision-making, perception, and problem-solving. In the past decade, research breakthroughs and advancements in computational power have fueled dramatic improvements in natural language processing, image recognition, and problem-solving, among other applications. 

Artificial intelligence heavily grew in popularity among the general population during the early 2020s as more companies produced models and increased opportunities for individuals to experiment with AI. However, given AI’s relatively new appearance in the public sphere, many may lack formal knowledge of the technology. Therefore, we first interviewed Yang Wang and Yun Huang, Champaign-Urbana residents and University of Illinois Information Science Professors who currently focus their research on human-computer interactions and artificial intelligence, to better understand an expert's perspective on this technology. They studied computer engineering in China and later met as PhD students at the University of California, Irvine, while playing badminton. Now married, they have conducted research at Carnegie Mellon University, Syracuse University, and, since 2019, at the University of Illinois.
Professor Huang describes what compelled her to study computer science. 

Yun Huang
I like to create things. I like to design things. When I applied college, my major, I choose the CS as the first one because it’s tough. And then my last major I choose design, I really like designing things. So now I feel like my work actually combines computer technologies plus design, which is designing stuff so designing interface, designing visual effect which is really aligned with my original interest. I didn't realize I was so much into computer engineering until I came here. Until I started my own research. I realized, “Oh! I love my major.” The best part of that right now, I think I love to study how human interact with machines. How we can build machines for the good of the society.

Karina Berceanu, Narrator 
Professor Wang also became interested in human-computer interactions as an undergraduate in China.
 
Yang Wang
The one subject I really liked in college was actually software engineering. I think that was the only thing where you had to consider the people. Everything else is either just straight up hardware or software algorithms, data structure. But software engineering was the only subject where you have to worry about people because they taught you the process in which to develop software and it of course involved people. So how do you manage that process? I found it really interesting where that's the only one that touches both people and machines.

Karina Berceanu, Narrator 
Given their shared research interests, Professor Huang and Professor Wang now co-direct the Social Computing Systems Lab (or “SALT Lab”), a coordinated research effort at the University of Illinois to understand how people interact with computing systems that involve both social and technological aspects, such as the internet, social media, and more recently, certain artificial intelligence tools. Recent projects in their lab include designing artificial intelligence systems to create more inclusive social and academic learning environments and evaluating cybersecurity concerns of emerging technologies like wearable devices.

In their personal lives, both professors have also lived through profound technological change, such as the introduction of the internet and cell phones in the mid to late 1990s. 

Yang Wang
Yeah flip phones! You would fold it, I remember. You open up and then you can call. But what’s funny about the phone is that–I remember it was my freshman year I got it–as a gift from my parents. And it was, at the time, it was not very common among my peers. It almost was a status thing. Like, if you were studying in a classroom, with all the students, and all of a sudden, if your cell phone rang, everybody would look at you and say, “wow, this guy’s rich.”

Karina Berceanu, Narrator 
Professor Huang also reflects on the differences between the first widely available version of the World Wide Web versus the web used today. 

Yun Huang
The first version is more like content created by whoever create these websites and then it's fixed, it's static, right? You don't change it a lot and it is not changed by users who view the content. But gradually, with web 2.0 we call it user generated content like Wikipedia or social media, Facebook, right? So a lot of the content or the majority of the content is created by whoever used the website. So that just give a totally different ways of using internet. Your purposes of using the internet is not only to consume the information but also being a producer. So, right now, because social media, because mobile computing, so you generate content using multimodality and you can upload pictures, create videos. It's just more diverse.

Karina Berceanu, Narrator 
Advancements in convenience and portability have also changed how consumers engage with today’s technologies, as Professor Yun Huang describes. 

Yun Huang
Many times when I text email, I send emails while I was walking, I listen to audio book while I doing other things, doing kind of like cleaning the dishes, things like that. So, multitasking a lot when I'm doing here. But in the past, everything is connected to the desktop machine so you only do the work when you're on the table.

Karina Berceanu, Narrator 
In the university lab, Yun Huang and Yang Wang’s research focuses on understanding the relationship between the social and technological aspects of various computing systems. They describe their day-to-day activities in order to stay at the forefront of this dynamic and continuously changing field.

Yun Huang
We have regular meetings with students and with collaborators on projects so most of the time it's project driven. We have a deadline, right? We have a life cycle for a project–we develop new ideas. We read papers. Because whenever you propose something new, you always need to know what it's giving what it's done right now. So you have to read what has been done from scholarly works and then read news articles and new phenomenon. New social phenomenon or technology innovations. You have to be aware of the industry innovations as well.

Yang Wang
So we teach technology related courses in the university and then in addition to that, research activities.

Karina Berceanu, Narrator 
In the past, artificial intelligence technologies have been largely confined to academic spaces. However, recent years have seen widespread integration of AI-based solutions into the lives of ordinary citizens. Examples include Apple’s “Siri,” Google Maps’ routing algorithms, and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, launched in November 2022.

Yun Huang
I think the major changes happened in the last year. Like, everybody is more democratic now because everybody can use generative AI solutions right now. So, in the past I used to think about when we can get this personal agent that you can talk to and he understands you, he understands your emotions as well. But now I think, if you look at all the offsprings of the AI based technologies, many of them have the intelligence in the sense the level of understanding humans input with great emotional understanding plus, knowledge-wise, they can share with you, they can answer your questions very well. So, I think we’re very close to get a very good personal agent very soon.

Karina Berceanu, Narrator 
Professor Huang also describes an example of how an artificial intelligence-based system similar to the personal agent previously described could be employed to solve social issues.

Yun Huang
So lets say I have one project about creating AI based solutions for community members to report safety incidents to the police departments for help. But, a lot of people, they don't feel comfortable to talk to the police agencies over the phone. Or, in the past, when they interview some of the victims, they have autism or they have some other social anxiety–they just didn't want to talk to people. So that has a huge barriers for community members to get help. So now, we are creating these AI based solutions that–its a chat bot–that you can either call or you can either text and then it replies you asking the question asking the question that a human dispatcher actually would ask. So, it just lowers the barrier and makes the service available any time. Also, it can provide emotional support. Many times, if you feel like you don't receive the support from the service provider because the service providers, they are very overloaded, they have a burnout from all kinds of calls. So, that's why they may not say, ‘I’m so sorry to hear that;’ those kind of emotional support may be missing from the human dispatchers. But, when you use our system, you actually get some level of emotional support, even though some people may not prefer, maybe feel like, “this is machine, I don't like to be talking that way.” But, in reality, people still feel that could be helpful.

Karina Berceanu, Narrator 
However, using artificial intelligence in a safety incident reporting system also comes with significant risks due to the lowered presence of human connection. Professor Huang suggests a way to implement the system while mitigating this risk.

Yun Huang
We are not saying we’re replacing the human dispatchers. So, this is driven by several challenges. One is that we are short of human dispatchers; if you go to police department or 911 call centers nationwide, you will realize that there is a shortage of labor. People don't want to go that stressful job. When you want to call, when you want to reach some help, you don’t get any so many times. That's why we are providing this technology to address the labor shortage. The other one is that we are not forcing you to use it. You always have the option; you can call the human dispatchers, you can talk to real humans. If they are not available, you can always get similar support from machines. 

Karina Berceanu, Narrator 
Developing and deploying such a system would require many technical considerations, including evaluation, testing, and AI governance. Professor Wang shares his insights on this matter. 

Yang Wang
In terms of my research, I'm more looking at how can we better engage the population with AI. One example is these AI systems can behave in different ways, but there is always this risk that AI is going to be so intelligent that it's just gonna replace human. And that is kind of the ultimate risk. One of the things that we were looking at in terms of research is to see how can we better engage just ordinary people in governing how AI systems should behave.

Karina Berceanu, Narrator 
Another potential application of artificial intelligence with enormous social implications is in teaching. Tools like Khanmigo, an AI-powered teaching assistant built by the founders of Khan Academy, offer personalized and instantaneous guidance on a student’s work. Professors Huang and Wang discuss some pros and cons to the role of AI in education and the impact on students and teachers. 

Yun Huang
I see it, definitely, both sides. But I think I’m not afraid of having AI teach for me. But I think the huge part of teaching is the human communication by hearing what your emotions, your excitement about different things. Teachers can adapt their content for individual or for the group, as well. I think a major part of my classes is students spare some time in the discussion session for each lecture, for each session, for each class. So that way, they not only learn from one instructor, but also from their peers, so they can see different perspectives. I think that is very important; that is probably not be replaceable by AI, so far, even though we can simulate peers using AI still. But, I think that human touch is not replaceable.

Yang Wang
Hopefully we wouldn’t be replaced before we retire.

Yun Huang
Well I have the confidence that we always can bring something new. Whenever there is new thing happens, humans can always bring something new in response. 

Karina Berceanu, Narrator 
Professors Huang and Wang also understand the inherent risks in developing artificial intelligence technologies. 

Yun Huang

If you see, AI can simulate humans now, then they can simulate both good things about humans, but also bad things about humans. So, you can see AI can function as a bad actor on internet. That could be very bad. That could be risky. So, that's why we not only developing for goodness, but also be very cautious about the capabilities of AI for doing malicious damage to the society.

Yang Wang
I think the biggest risk is AI–or what they call general artificial intelligence–it gets to a point where it is so intelligent, it is self governing, self learning–you can write this AI by human, but then the AI will learn by itself, which is already happening, to the point where it will essentially get out of control of human governance and then the AI might do evil things, who knows. 

Karina Berceanu, Narrator 
Another implication of the current advancements in artificial intelligence is that these technologies could, or have already, developed consciousness. 

Yun Huang
I don’t have the direct evidence to make that call at this moment. I think in order to answer that question we have to define consciousness clearly, but even that term is very complicated philosophically, psychologically, or even scientifically, I think. So, I don’t think we can answer it right now. I actually think it would be nice to have a super intelligence that is conscious but conscious for the social good at large, not for individual. So, I am not afraid of that intelligence at all. I think whatever it’s meant to be is meant to be.

Yang Wang
Yeah, I think for me, it’s inevitable. AI will have conscious. If it doesn’t have it right now, it will, probably quite soon. Whether I like it or not, and I’m also not afraid that it has consciousness, again, if it’s doing something good.

Yun Huang
It’s like awareness if you say, “do you have awareness?” - awareness about what? I think it’s about like for the when we say identity, when we say you know human rights, or ethical concerns. Who’s the ethics? We have to be very aware like what we’re defining right. Something we’re commonly defined right now may not be optimal for the society. So, there is always evolving definition.
Karina Berceanu, Narrator 
While researchers in academia and industry have been implementing artificial intelligence-based solutions in a wide range of fields, ordinary citizens have seen a widespread integration of AI into their own lives in recent years. While virtual assistants like Apple’s “Siri” and Amazon’s “Alexa” have existed since the early 2010s, their capabilities were generally limited to simple tasks like retrieving the weather or performing an internet search. Instead, large language models, like OpenAI’s ChatGPT created in 2022 offer broader ranges of capabilities in both personal and logical tasks.

In January of 2023, ChatGPT surpassed 100 million users just two months after its initial release, becoming the fastest growing internet application in history. In February of 2025, ChatGPT had over 400 million weekly users and aims to have over 1 billion weekly users by the year’s end.

As mentioned by Professors Huang and Wang, artificial intelligence has become ubiquitous in our daily lives–a reality that has become apparent in our interviews with Champaign-Urbana residents. To understand how these technologies will impact the current and future society, we asked Champaign-Urbana residents about how technology has changed during their lifetime. 

Local Central Illinois farmer Dennis Wenger of Fairbury shares how the agricultural industry has incorporated artificial intelligence.

Dennis Wenger 
A lot of the systems on the machinery and stuff are monitored already. There's input put in there for the parameters for combining your crop, and it’s telling you the moisture of the crop, and it’s recommending you to slow down or to speed up a particular part of the implement. We do have driverless auger carts to unload our combines. It can be a conventional tractor picked in the field, with the technology sitting in the field, and with the technology, you can tell it to come to the combine. It knows how to take a path through the field that won't run through the standing crop. It'll come to the combine and allow you to unload the grain on and on the go, and then it'll go back to a base station.

Karina Berceanu, Narrator 
Wenger's perspective on AI in farming aligns with ongoing work at the University of Illinois, an institution pioneering in modern agricultural technology research. Initiatives like AIFARMS–which stands for AI for Future Agricultural Resilience, Management, and Sustainability–currently develop and investigate technologies for autonomous farming, livestock monitoring, soil health, and environmental resilience. Wenger isn’t afraid of the changes that artificial intelligence could bring to agriculture.

Dennis Wenger 
AI to a farmer is–he's always looking for a new tool, a better tool, and I think in most cases that’s what we have to look at that - as a tool. You hate to say you're going to limit the ability to use a tool. But, it's still is gonna take a human being to be involved with the input into the AI product, and it's gonna have to be monitored, and it's gonna have to take a group of people. I think there's no one person or small group of people that can make decisions on that. But if we just really try to use it as a tool but not let it control us, and figure out how to make sure that we moderate it and put limitations on it.

Karina Berceanu, Narrator 
Similar to advancement in agriculture, medicine has significantly improved patient outcomes with the introduction of new technologies like MRI scans, surgical procedures, and vaccines. College of ACES Professor Emeritus Keith Kelly, an immuno-physiologist, describes the ways in which artificial intelligence has already continued this trend.

Keith Kelly
It already has impacted medicine. There was one of the early reports that showed that AI was better at diagnosing lesions for breast cancer than what trained pathologists could do. They picked up lesions, cells that pathologists could not. In terms of advancing in medical sciences and health for all of us it's going to be a big boom. It's going to be very helpful. I still consider medicine to be an art, as much as a science. I believe you need to talk to patients. You need to learn more about what's going on inside of their head to figure out what's going on inside the rest of their body.

Karina Berceanu, Narrator 
Similar to Wenger, Professor Kelley is optimistic about the ways in which artificial intelligence might shape the future, though with a few technical considerations.

Keith Kelly
I think the sky’s the limit! But, I often told my students a phrase: “garbage in, garbage out.”And by that I mean if you don't have solid data, then you're going to come up with conclusions that aren’t really true. And so, while AI scans the universe in terms of what's available, a lot of times what's available isn’t necessarily a fact. And so, if that gets included into AI’s interpretation and what they do with it, then that bothers me a little bit. But I think those issues will be worked out as time goes on.

Karina Berceanu, Narrator 
To hear more about technological change in the agricultural and medical fields, please check out our podcast on this series Moving, Growing, Healing: How Technology Has Changed Fields of Daily Life.

We also interviewed a group of Champaign-Urbana residents with backgrounds in computing and academia. Colleen Bushell, who works at the University of Illinois National Center for Supercomputing Applications (or NCSA), worked as an original engineer on MOSAIC, the first graphical web browser released in 1993. She describes how AI might change the field of graphic design. 

Colleen Bushell

I think it will change the field a lot just as when people were able to buy their own desktop computers and create some of their own design items that, in the past, they would’ve hired a graphic designer to do. That really changed the field, and then graphic designers specialized in other types of design. And I think the same thing will happen with AI. There will be things that AI can do that will replace some of what a graphic designer may do right now. But then, that just means the graphic designer is going to continue to specialize in other aspects of it. There are definitely extreme positives to what can be done, but then there are also things that could happen that aren’t so great. And so, the reality is they will probably all happen and so how do we deal with the things that may be potentially negative. So, I think there is a lot of potential, I think there are also going to be hiccups along the road that we're all going to have to figure out how to address.

Karina Berceanu, Narrator 
Bushell’s perspective is remarkably similar to that of AI researchers and professors Yang Wang and Yun Huang. Although artificial intelligence may change how certain areas of work are done, Bushell suggests that humans will be able to reimagine their professions to adapt to this change. In Professor Huang’s words, “humans will always be able to bring something in response.” 

Advancements in technology have also fundamentally changed how we store and access information, and historically, that has meant reimagining the role of the library. Open-source internet resources such as Wikipedia, released in 2001, have enabled individuals to access a near-endless supply of information from any device with internet access. Paula Kaufman, the first Dean of Libraries and University Librarian at the University of Illinois describes how the function of a library has changed following digitization and the internet.

Paula Kaufman 
Libraries, in my day, were places you went to get books and maybe ask the librarian a question if you couldn’t find the answer somehow in your home encyclopedia, ‘cause we all had home encyclopedias. Today, you can do any number of things in a public library and they’re really considered to be community centers. The Champaign Public has now built The Studio. They have between 225 and 250 kids a day who come over from Edison. So, you can go and record your blogs or your vlogs, they have fancy sewings machines, you can do your games, they have 3D printers, and other kinds of equipment whose name I don’t know and I’m not creative enough to use. But, you know, there's any number of things you can do there.

Karina Berceanu, Narrator 
Kaufman draws from her decades-long career as a librarian to give the following words of wisdom regarding technology:

Paula Kaufman
Things will continue to change. I retired in 2015, so it was almost nine years ago, and there have been many changes–we didn’t even talk about preservation. So, when I was born, no one knew why paper disintegrated. It was a series of experiments, really, it was at North Carolina where they realized what was happening.

Then we were faced with how do you preserve what’s on a CD-ROM? How do you preserve what’s on a reel of tape? All of that has developed. And we’ll have new technologies and librarians will have to continue to figure out, “How are they going to access it?” We’ve gone from owning journals to leasing journals. A whole different mindset, everything is different than it used to be, and it’ll continue to be different.

Karina Berceanu, Narrator 
These differences have also led Ms. Kaufman to consider the potential drawbacks of today’s technologies.

Paula Kaufman
There are many positive things that I’ve talked about, but there are a lot of negative things - difference in privacy. In my day, every movement wasn’t tracked. We didn’t have freedoms, the way some of you do, but we also didn’t have these horrible incidents that one hears about online. We didn’t have people stalking us online. We didn’t have bullying online. We had bullying in person, but we didn’t have bullying online. Which has to be really awful.

Karina Berceanu, Narrator 
Perhaps change is the only certainty with regards to the future, and by engaging with these new technologies with intentionality, society can maximize their benefits while minimizing their risks. Even though the past cannot perfectly predict the future, valuable lessons can still be learned from historical events.

Some interviewed community members expressed specific concerns about replacing certain human decision-making processes with artificial intelligence tools. Central Illinois farmer Dennis Wenger acknowledges that while he appreciates many of the advancements brought about by new technologies, he wishes that some technologies would never have been developed in the first place.

Dennis Wenger
There’s technology that you wish you could make it go away. We haven’t talked about the nuclear advancements, in warfare, especially–it’s been a part of our life from the ‘50s and ‘60s. I was young growing up then. I was not born yet when we did use nuclear technology as a weapon, but I was close enough to it that it was on everyone’s mind. And, when the situation arose with the Cuban Missile Crisis, it was a big fear then, that we now could really get into a nuclear war. And so we grew up with the signs on many of the public buildings that they were safe, nuclear protected areas in case of a warfare. And we had drills at school, we had drills, warning sirens put into place, with the idea that we could survive a nuclear war. That was in the background for several years there and seemed to pass somewhat, but we have to realize that that technology’s out there, and it could, it could be used for so many nuclear things. And, we’re working with other technologies that can be a problem, too, so we just don’t want to move to fast, and we have to learn to. And there may be other sources we’ll end up going to, but that’s a technology that’s questionable, again, hydrogen use, hydrogen types of products and vehicles for cars and things like that, it’s a potential – but, again, there’s a danger. It can be real efficient, but it can be very deadly.

Karina Berceanu, Narrator 
Champaign-Urbana community members also suggested ways individuals and collective communities can navigate today’s world amidst a rapidly changing technological landscape. Ann Reisner, an Associate Professor Emerita in the Department of Media & Cinema Studies, believes the government could play a much larger role in ensuring that new technologies are properly regulated.

Ann Reisner
I would not want to go back to a time where I couldn’t look up pretty much everything on the net that I wanted to know. I would not. That’s just an amazing luxury. On the other hand, we could regulate it, there’s no question. It might take a while, we might make some false starts, but we could do it if we wanted to. I’m just somewhat pessimistic right now that the U.S has the capacity, and it’s structure to actually go ahead and regulate it in a good way. But I firmly believe we could. Turn off TikTok after you’ve been on it for 10 minutes. That could be engineered in. They engineered in seatbelts. They could do it. There’s just a lot of profit incentive from very powerful people who are incredibly freaking wealthy who have interests in making sure we don’t do it.

Karina Berceanu, Narrator 
Colleen Bushell reflects upon experiencing–and creating–the technologies that have shaped her life.

Colleen Bushell 
That experience of seeing new technologies come—so, the browser, genomics, AI. Seeing the new technologies come, watching them evolve, knowing that there are pros and cons, things that are going to be beneficial and things that are going to change in a negative way. I don’t know, there's something about that that I find very interesting. And realizing, “how do we address the negative things?” And so, I think everybody tries as best they can, but I think what I’ve learned is that you can’t control it. Once a new technology comes about that does have an impact, that really does change things, it’s going to keep evolving. 

I do think that another aspect of my career or my experience is the multidisciplinary, or the collaboration, that can happen and the innovation that can happen when you bring different types of people together, that just tackle a problem. And the other thing would be that if you would have asked me, you know, a long time ago, would I predict I’d be involved in any new technologies, I would think, “no, not me! That happens with people way out there doing something different.” But, what I’ve learned is that the people that work together and create these new innovative things are just regular people. It’s not like they are superheroes that you would have noticed that, “oh, they're going to be the people that create something so dramatically different.” That’s not to say that they don’t have something very special about them. I think something that’s common between a lot of the people I’ve seen really be creative is that they’re full of energy, they have good ideas, and they know how to work with people and they know how —just from their personalities—to really make something happen.

Karina Berceanu, Narrator 
No other period of history has experienced a pace of technological development like today. Despite the potential concerns, Urbana resident Margaret Lovell is optimistic about what the future holds. 

Margaret Lovell
So I’m trying to put myself back, not just to when I was a kid, but like, what would my grandmother think about all this stuff? So, I grew up in a time when we believed that progress was limitless. So when I told you I wasn’t surprised about the moon landing, it’s because I had been conditioned to believe that we could do anything. We, mostly we Americans, but that we could do anything. And so, while I had no concept of the specifics that were going to come along in my life, none of it has really surprised me. Because I have been all my life set up, not in a bad way, to believe in progress, to believe in the future. And, I mean I could look back and I could say it’s sad that we don’t have teleportation yet, but we might, someday, you know, Scotty beam me down, we might get there. So, just faith. I have faith in progress.

Karina Berceanu, Narrator 
From flip phones as a status symbol to artificial intelligence research at the University of Illinois, Professor Yun Huang and Yang Wang’s personal and professional experiences with technological changes allowed them to give more informed context on artificial intelligence. Then, our community members helped further elaborate on technological changes in more specific settings, such as farms or libraries. By incorporating insights from experts and community members alike, we can reach more comprehensive understandings of how technological developments, particularly ones concerning AI, are experienced and interpreted. In previous podcast episodes, we explored historical periods of technological change, including advancements in agriculture, medical technology, news, and the internet. 

Thank you for listening to this Uni High-WILL Oral History Project Podcast Series on Technology and Society. To learn more about the impacts of technological change on infrastructure, please listen to Moving, Growing, Healing: How Technology Has Changed Fields of Daily Life, our podcast on agriculture, medicine, and transportation. We also feature interviews with local Champaign-Urbana residents on our podcast, Logging On: Histories of Life Before and After Computers, and on our podcast about technological changes in news and entertainment. All podcasts are available to listen for free on the Illinois Youth Media website. For more information, visit will.illinois.edu/illinoisyouthmedia.