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Pbs Learning Media: Girls Explore It Careers: Inside Itest
BuildIT capitalizes on girls' inherent interest in design and communication technologies, engaging girls in hands-on, collaborative, real-world experiences as they progress through 3 stages - Apprentice, Journeygirl, and Specialist. Here...
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Pbs Learning Media: Robot Race
NOVA follows two teams as they push their engineering design skills to the limit to develop systems that allow cars to drive themselves. [5:52]
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Pbs Learning Media: Magnetic Microbots
New York Times technology columnist David Pogue visits the Institute of Robotics at ETH Zurich, where materials scientists are designing a microbot that can travel into a human eye to treat a type of blindness. [2:49]
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Pbs Learning Media: The Intelligent Robot
Find out how robots are viewed as machines that perform tasks that humans can't (or won't) undertake. [4:26]
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Pbs Learning Media: I Farm
Learn about a California pistachio farmer who developed an iPad app to improve irrigation. [4:59]
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Pbs Learning Media: Career Connections: Sound Engineer
Many sound engineers creatively use technology to produce audio for music, radio, film, and television. To prepare for this career path, studying media arts and science would be beneficial. [5:38]
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Pbs Learning Media: Building Curiosity: Rover Rocks Rocker Bogie
This NASA video showcases Curiosity, NASA's Mars rover that will, over a 23-month mission, collect and analyze Martian soil and rock samples while traversing a targeted area of the planet testing for evidence of current or past life. [1:59]
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Pbs Learning Media: Career Connections: Web Developer
Watch three web developers explain how teamwork and a creative mindset are the building blocks of their trade in making computer code efficient and their websites intuitive and user-friendly. [7:12]
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Pbs Learning Media: Traffic Jam Part 7: Mission Accomplished
Students celebrate by watching the traffic flow smoothly at their intersection and reflect on the role computers play in helping to solve complex problems. This is part of a 7-part engineering design lesson. [1:53]
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Pbs Learning Media: Traffic Jam Part 6: Run a Simulation
Students utilize a computer simulation to help solve their problem of traffic light congestion. This is part of a 7-part engineering design lesson. [3:55]
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Pbs Learning Media: Traffic Jam Part 5: Make a Model
Students process and analyze data on traffic light congestion. This is part of a 7-part engineering design lesson. [3:31]
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Pbs Learning Media: Traffic Jam Part 4: Take the Numbers
Students go to an intersection to collect data on traffic light congestion. This is part of a 7-part engineering design lesson. [1:31]
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Pbs Learning Media: Traffic Jam Part 3: Brainstorm
Students meet Dave Musicant, a computer science professor and explain that they want to try to reduce the amount of time they spend waiting at red lights at the intersection by their school. [3 min, 1 sec]
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Pbs Learning Media: Traffic Jam Part 2: Straight to the Source
Students visit their city's traffic management center, tour the traffic signal control room and meet with Nick Van Gunst, a traffic engineer who shows them that the city's traffic light system is controlled by computers. They learn that...