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Pbs Learning Media: Girls Explore It Careers: Inside Itest

6th - 8th
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

9th - 10th
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

9th - 10th
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

9th - 10th
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

9th - 10th
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

9th - 10th
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

9th - 10th
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

9th - 10th
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

9th - 10th
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

9th - 10th
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

9th - 10th
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

9th - 10th
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

9th - 10th
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

9th - 10th
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...