Radio remains a pervasive medium for mass information dissemination, with AM/FM stations reaching more Americans than either smartphone-based social networking or live television. Increasingly, radio broadcasts are also streamed online and accessed over the Internet. We present WavePulse, a framework that records, documents, and analyzes radio content in real-time. While our framework is generally applicable, we showcase the efficacy of WavePulse in a collaborative project with a team of political scientists focusing on the 2024 Presidential Elections. We use WavePulse to monitor livestreams of 396 news radio stations over a period of three months, processing close to 500,000 hours of audio streams. These streams were converted into time-stamped, diarized transcripts and analyzed to track answer key political science questions at both the national and state levels. Our analysis revealed how local issues interacted with national trends, providing insights into information flow. Our results demonstrate WavePulse's efficacy in capturing and analyzing content from radio livestreams sourced from the Web. Code and dataset can be accessed at \url{https://wave-pulse.io}.

Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) held its first-ever virtual National Leadership Conference since the organization was founded in 1945. This year's virtual National Leadership Conference was a memorable chapter in FCCLA's story as the organization kicked off its 75th anniversary celebration and honored FCCLA's Class of 2020. Instead of gathering in-person, 65 of Edison's John P. Stevens High School FCCLA students logged on to an online platform from Tuesday, July 7, through Thursday, July 9, which blended virtual reality and gamification technology to transform FCCLA's National Leadership Conference (NLC) into an "on-demand" virtual experience. This year's historic virtual NLC included keynote speakers, breakout sessions, leadership training, a College Fair and EXPO, STAR Events recognition, networking opportunities, adviser professional development, and many more activities. With just a click of a button, members had the opportunity to participate in the Ultimate Leadership Experience in the comfort and safety of their home.

A quick, hassle-free way to stay on top of robotics news, our robotics digest is released on the first Monday of every month. Sign up to get it in your inbox. From wacky talking Einsteins to clumsy security'bots, from speedy drones to the underwater operations at Fukushima, it's been another busy month. So let's kick off our July review with a look at robots in action! You'd be forgiven for missing this first one.

A quick, hassle-free way to stay on top of robotics news, our robotics digest is released on the first Monday of every month. Sign up to get it in your inbox. Let's kick off our June review by looking at some great new robotics research and development in action: Inspired by arthropod insects and spiders, Harvard Professor George Whitesides and Alex Nemiroski--a former postdoctoral fellow in Whitesides' Harvard lab--have created a type of semi-soft robot capable of standing and walking. The team also created a robotic water strider capable of pushing itself along the liquid surface. The robots are described in a recently published paper in the journal Soft Robotics.