May 2005 Show Archives
Week 1 Show 0518
Renewable Energy (View Video)
In the quest for alternative energy sources, canola may provide an answer.
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Electric Vehicles (View Video)
A growing number of Americans are now considering for the first time electric cars. For many years thought of as just a novelty, hybrid cars are gearing up. Partially fueled by batteries, hybrids are hot item on the sales lot and the Mid-Del Technology Center is training a new generation to work on these cars.
For more information visit this link:Mid-Del Technology Center Electric Vehicle Center
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Electric Vehicle Safety (View Video)
With more electric vehicles on the roads, the inevitable will happen. A crash. And with as much as five hundred volts running through some electrical vehicles, when crashes do occur emergency personnel need to take special precautions. That's why safety training sessions are being offered at the electrical vehicle center especially for emergency personnel.
For more information visit this link:Mid-Del Technology Center Electric Vehicle Center
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Drag Racing with Ethanol (View Video)
What do farming and drag racing have in common? You may want to look in the tank.
For more information visit this link:Drag Racing News
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Energy Independence (View Video)
Energy prices are becoming a problem for America’s economy. Here in Oklahoma the answer may lie in farmer’s fields where new renewable sources of energy may help ease our energy woes.
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Week 2 Show 0519
Crumbling Bridges (View Video)
In both human and economic costs the collapse of the I-40 bridge near Webbers Falls ranks as one of the worst river disasters in Oklahoma history. Yet many argue that the bridge could have withstood the impact had it been built in accordance with modern structural standards. Oklahoma bridges are aging, in fact, nearly a quarter of all the bridges in Oklahoma were built in the 1930s. With weight limits, that at best, limit commerce and at worst can be dangerous.
For more information visit this link:Oklahoma Department of Transportation
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2005 Ag Hall of Fame (View Video)
You can say the gentleman in our next story literally started off at the bottom of the heap. With shovel in hand, Tom Gilliam worked his way into becoming the 2005 inductee into Oklahoma’s Ag Hall of Fame.
For more information visit this link:Inductee Tom Gilliam
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Week 3 Show 0520
Math Motivation (View Video)
A recent study says many of our children are ill prepared for the high paying, yet demanding jobs in the workforce they will soon enter. According to Federal Reserve chairman, Alan Greenspan, over the next fifteen years, at least three point three million jobs will move to Asia at a cost that could easily hit one hundred and thirty-six billion dollars in lost wages. To stem this flow of jobs overseas, work is underway in our state to include mathematical education in curriculum not normally associated with decimals and fractions. See how Oklahoma Agricultural Education is putting the motivation back in mathematics.
For more information visit this link:Oklahoma Agricultural Education
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Pre-Engineering (View Video)
Now traditionally, math curriculum has been taught by having students learn a procedure then practice it on pages of problems. But students in and around the Shawnee, Oklahoma, area are taking a completely different approach. Students at Gordon Cooper Technology Center may still be in high school, but what they’re working on is out of this world.
For more information visit this link:Gordon Cooper Tech Center
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Main Street Hobart (View Video)
See how the Main Street Program is helping the economy of the entire town of Hobart, Oklahoma.
For more information visit these links:Hobart, Oklahoma
Oklahoma Main Street Program
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Urban Harvest (View Video)
Thanks to Oklahoma Regional Food Bank's Urban Harvest Program, some needy Oklahomans now have access to fresh fruits and vegetables.
For more information visit this link:Oklahoma Regional Food Bank
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Week 4 Show 0521
Food 4 Kids (View Video)
According to statistics, one in five children in Oklahoma is at risk of going to bed hungry. But the answer to that problem may lie with something as simple as a backpack. The Oklahoma Regional Food Bank is sending food home with children to make sure they have enough to eat over the weekend.
For more information visit this link:Food 4 Kids Program
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Tree Planting (View Video)
Oklahomans know all too well the need in much of our state for wind breaks… trees strategically planted to hold our soils in place. Such tree planting efforts are made possible by our state tree regeneration program.
For more information visit this link:Oklahoma Wildlife Department
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