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Shocking Truth Storyboard Contest: Grades 6-12

Create a storyboard illustrating the importance of electricity and win a chance to see your idea turned into a spot on KCPT!

Create a storyboard illustrating the importance of electricity and win a chance to see your idea turned into a spot on KCPT!

Summary and Guidelines:

  1. Student(s), grades 6 thru 12, will work to develop a story regarding electricity
  2. Student(s), grades 6 thru 12, will submit an essay describing their story, thinking in terms of scenes, and how much time for each scene, remembering you only have 15-30 seconds to tell your important story!
  3. One winner will be selected from the submitted essays to work with a KCPT producer and produce a 15-30second segment which will air at least 60 times during KCPT’s PBS KIDS GO! block.
  4. The winning piece will be available through KCPT’s website and KCPTKids.org; social networking sites such as a Facebook, MySpace, iTunesU and YouTube and through www.learn360.com an educational video streaming service provided by KCPT to over 100,000 students and 7,000 teachers in both Kansas and Missouri.

The Storyboard must relate to one of the following two categories:
1) Innovations, important figures or careers in the Electrical Industry
Questions to consider: Why were they critical or important? How did the person or innovation change the electrical industry or society? How might society be different without this innovation or person’s discovery? What is interesting or remarkable about this career or position in the industry?

2) Electrical Safety
What to cover: Define the topic and/or problem. Identify the dangers and/or potential problems. Explain how to be safe in each situation. Include what visuals you may use or what you may demonstrate.

Instructions:

  • Submit completed entry, with Official Entry Form by September 30. All forms are available at www.electricleague.org/safety
  • All entries must include required documents, as instructed on the Official Entry Form (list of participants,bibliography and essay).

Direct all contest materials and questions to:
Jane Male, CAE, Executive Director
Electric League of Missouri & Kansas
PO Box 419264
Kansas City, MO 64141
816.561.5323
jmale@swassn.com

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History Detectives

From a watercolor to a stained glass window. Watch Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at 7pm.

What do the violent images on this pamphlet mean? Wes Cowan decodes the message and the strategy behind a U.S. World War II propaganda leaflet. Then, Gwen Wright traces a cherished family heirloom, a watercolor, to the world of Tiffany stained glass. How did Tiffany open a window of opportunity for early 20th century women? A touching eulogy stitches together the lives of two Americans fought in the Spanish Civil War. Almost a century later, Tukufu Zuberi unites a nephew and a son of those soldiers. All on History Detectives.

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Abraham & Mary Lincoln: A House Divided

Episode 1: Story of the Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln’s childhoods. Watch Monday, June 20, 2011 at 9pm on KCPT2.

American Experience Episode One – The story of the Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln’s childhoods — his in a remote backwoods log cabin, hers in a wealthy Kentucky home — describes their courtship. Mary sets her heart on the raw, socially awkward Lincoln, saying later: “He’ll be President of the United States one day. If I had not thought so I never would have married him.”

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Secrets of the Dead: Blackbeard’s Lost Ship

Solve the biggest mystery about the infamous pirate's reign. Watch Wednesday, June 22, 2011 at 7pm.

Off the coast of North Carolina, a group of marine archaeologists has discovered the remains of the Queen Anne’s Revenge , the pirate Blackbeard’s flagship. Their careful preservation and analysis of the remains – including cannons, guns, anchors, even gold – are helping to solve the biggest mystery about the infamous pirate’s reign: Was the ship’s sinking an accident or was the grounding a carefully laid plot by Blackbeard to double-cross his men and steal the treasure for himself? Three hundred years later, SECRETS OF THE DEAD reveals the true story.

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