Sci Girls I Day Eight

Lights, Cameras, Action!  Today was our visit to WFSU.  We were greeted by Mr. Mike Dunn and Mrs. Kim Kelling-Engstrom who gave us a wonderful introduction to the history of public television.  We started with an introduction to the Kirk Collection which is a collection of nearly 300 antique radios, record players, and music boxes housed at the broadcast center.  The girls were then divided into groups to create radio spots and interviews to be broadcast on local radio and to air Friday night at the Thank You reception.  They also learned the inner workings and behind the scene happenings required to record/produce a television segment.  After calling it a wrap, we whisked back over to the MagLab to meet with Ashley Anderson & Sarah Caponigro and Audra Hayden & Christin Gorman, representatives of Atkins Engineering and EGS, Inc. respectively.  Cables and tension were the specialty topics for today as the girls first guessed how much sand could fishing wire, a thread, and a piece of yarn hold when poured into an empty gallon water container - more than one would think.  Then it was their turns.  The challenge was to create/design a cable (made from yarn, thread, or fishing wire) to hold as much sand as possible in a bucket.  The weights ranged from 23.8 lbs up to a few of the teams that maxed out at 50 lbs. Thanks for ThePianoGuys clip of "What Makes You Beautiful".  Only two days to go with a visit to the Sinks and IFAS.