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Collaborating with Agencies, the Story of Tawani Weeden

Tawani Weeden’s first job is with the Milwaukee District Office of USDA’s Forest Service. He landed the job by successfully completing a Forest Service Job Corps training program. This show reveals the professionals working on his behalf and how collaboration between agencies made his future bright.

Ask an Engineer

This show, narrated by and featuring 12 year old Sophie Lang, includes 5 stories featuring a variety of engineers. This seven minute, widescreen program with surround sound was designed to play continuously in a special theater as part of a traveling science museum exhibit about engineering called “Tech City”

Lofty Estimates

Middle school students use a giant protractor in the field, learning how trigonometry helps surveyors determine the height of a building that is far away. The students help each other to use a tape measure and a trig table that they call “that tangent thing”, to make their calculations.

Breast Cancer and the Estrogen Connection: Plastics

Certain types of plastics can leach estrogen mimicking chemicals into beverage bottles and food containers. Scientists are concerned that even at low levels, these environmental estrogens may work together with the body’s own estrogen to increase the risk of breast cancer.