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It's More Than Just Science!
(K-5th Grade)
Tuesdays; 4:30 p.m. at John and Judy Gay Library (JJGL)
Wednesdays; 4:30 p.m. at Roy and Helen Hall Library (Hall)
See Also:
*STEAM Building (5th-8th Grade)
Fridays; Jan. 19, Feb. 16, Apr. 19, May 17; 4:30 p.m. at JJGL.
*STEAM in Real Life (6th-12th Grade)
Saturdays, Jan. 27, Feb. 3, Feb. 10, Feb. 17, Feb. 24; 11:30 a.m. at JJGL
Pub. Date
[2007], c2007
Language
English
Description
With mortgages entering foreclosure at a record pace, the implications for financial markets-and for ordinary Americans-are far-reaching and severe. For insight into this potential meltdown, Bill Moyers talks with New York Times assistant business and financial editor Gretchen Morgenson, who has covered the story. In addition, Lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, shines light on the secret "Deathstar" trade deal between the...
Pub. Date
[2013], c2012
Language
English
Description
Over more than a decade, America's top investment bank provided risky financial products that sent the Greek government further and further into debt. Goldman Sachs earned hundreds of millions on the deal while the position of Greece within the European Union became untenable. Traveling to New York, London, and Athens, this film reveals what happened and examines the devastating consequences in present-day Greece. Viewers learn how, even as the Greek...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"An insider's unflinching expose of the toxic culture within the Federal Reserve. In the early 2000s, as a Wall Street escapee writing a financial column for the Dallas Morning News. Booth attracted attention for her bold criticism of the Fed's low interest rate policies and her cautionary warnings about the bubbly housing market. Nobody was more surprised than she when the folks at the Dallas Federal Reserve invited her aboard. Figuring she could...
4) Tailspin: the people and forces behind America's fifty-year fall--and those fighting to reverse it
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning journalist and best-selling author of America's Bitter Pill: a tour de force examination of 1) how and why major American institutions no longer serve us as they should, causing a deep rift between the vulnerable majority and the protected few, and 2) how some individuals and organizations are laying the foundation for real, lasting change. In this revelatory narrative covering the years 1967 to 2017, Steven Brill gives us...
Language
English
Description
What is it like to be a digital advertising and marketing worker? In this Career Q&A video interview, Mark Wolfe talks about his career path, what he does on the job, and the keys to success in digital advertising and marketing. He also offers candid advice on breaking into the profession as well as insight into the industry’s biggest challenges and how the field may change in the next ten years.
Series
Language
English
Description
What is it like to be an Internet Marketing and Advertising Consultant? In this Career Q&A video interview, Stephen May talks about his career path, what he does on the job, and the keys to success in the internet marketing field. He also offers candid advice on breaking into the profession as well as insight into the industry's biggest challenges and how the field may change in the next ten years.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
When French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps returned triumphantly to Paris after completing the Suez Canal in 1869, he was hailed as a national hero. Thousands raced to invest in his next, even bolder scheme: to build a great canal across Panama. His dream would cut a swathe across the South American continent and unite the vast oceans of the Atlantic and Pacific. Fortunes seemed assured as shipping would no longer have to face the terrors of Cape Horn...
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Language
English
Description
Students would do well to meet three women who have found success in the rubber industry. This program profiles Catherine Dupont, an extruder operation manager in charge of an automotive rubber production line; Michelle Hennessey, a tire builder who also functions as a rotating safety monitor; and Nathalie Leger, a production specialist involved in several phases of the rubber manufacturing process. Interviews with co-workers and supervisors help...
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Pub. Date
[2012], c2012
Language
English
Description
Jim runs the quality control lab at David Michael and Company, a food flavoring manufacturer. Aliah is a biomedical research technician at The Wistar Institute, a cancer research center in Philadelphia. And Tony, a production mechanic at New Jersey American Water, is the third featured case study in this exploration of applied science and technology jobs. What do all three have in common? They landed their well-paid, technically challenging positions...
Series
Pub. Date
[2014], c2010
Language
English
Description
This program continues the investigation into the greed and recklessness that drove the world to the brink of financial ruin. Follow the extraordinary bailout engineered by the U.S. Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson, himself a former CEO of Goldman Sachs. Go behind the scenes to see desperate world leaders at each other's throats. Watch as you see the effects of the economic turn-down that range from unemployment, foreclosure and homelessness, protesting,...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In 2003, Moscow's Triumph Palace became Europe's tallest building. What is striking about this luxury residential block is not so much it's height but the fact that it resurrects an architectural style closely linked with the city's turbulent political past. In the 1940s Josef Stalin commissioned a series of seven tall towers that would compete with the skyscrapers of New York. Known as the Seven Sisters, the towers were created to inspire Russian...
12) Real Life 101
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Language
English
Description
Shawn will visit a university where he meets an engineering student. He is part of an organization called Limbitless Solutions that uses 3-D printing to create prosthetic arms for children who either were born without an arm or lost one due to injury or disease. For prosthetic designs, see Enabling the Future. And Gracey will talk to a sales manager for a trendy women’s clothing manufacturer and see how he gets his company’s fashions in stores...
13) Career Insights
Series
Language
English
Description
Interview with Lee Panglea head of Scotland and Ireland CIPD which is a professional body for HR practitioners discussing growing industries and key skills needed for the future.
14) Working With
Series
Language
English
Description
In this video, three young people talk about their work in business administration including education, skills needed, challenges, and what they enjoy about their jobs. Arden received on-the-job training before starting his own IT systems company from his bedroom. As a video game producer, Tom works with each department from conception through manufacturing. Glen discusses the business aspect of video game development.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In this video, learn how an automation clerk works as a team with the clerk/typist to ensure the installations of the office run efficiently, and the five most common office content share systems that may be automated. The clip closes with some ideal character traits found in those individuals who pursue this career path.
16) Bankers
Series
Pub. Date
[2014], c2013
Language
English
Description
Focusing on the 2012 banking industry scandal that took down banking legend Bob Diamond, bank bosses, regulators and politicians address how the balance of power has finally started to shift away from the masters of the universe. Ironically, this game-changing crisis erupted over the widespread rigging of an obscure rate-setting mechanism, Libor, rather than over the tumult of the financial crash. Former Barclays chairman Marcus Agius, RBS boss Sir...
Pub. Date
[2013], c2012
Language
English
Description
The Norwegian hamlet of Vik was nearly bankrupted in 2007 due to speculative investing in U.S. hedge funds. Why has it become so difficult for communities, companies, and individuals to protect themselves from financial volatility? This program looks at the inner workings of the global economy, examining the mechanics behind unanticipated bubbles and catastrophic crashes. Experts including best-selling author Michael Lewis (The Big Short: Inside the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning business journalist Rana Foroohar shows how the shortsighted and misguided financial practices that nearly toppled the global economy in 2008 have come to infiltrate all corners of American business--putting us on a dangerous collision course to another economic meltdown that will make 2008 look like a mere blip in the business cycle"--
"Eight years on from the biggest market meltdown since the Great Depression, the key lessons of...
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