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Sparked is a podcast of West Virginia University Magazine that is all about the people who are changing Appalachia’s future for the better. We know you’ve heard about our challenges. But there’s more to the story.
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Episode 11 - How We Talk from 2020-02-27T16:23:11
On the cusp of high school, four girls in a rural middle school talk with researchers about why they talk the way they do and how hard they’ve tried to change themselves to be accepted by their peers.
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Episode 10 - Five Milliseconds from 2019-05-16T18:50:24
On July 24, 2001, something arrived on Earth. It would take six years for it to be noticed. And even longer to prove it existed.
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Episode 9 - Star Hunters from 2019-04-04T13:54:13
Some high school students went into the mountains to learn to look for stars and discovered who they could become.
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Episode 8 - Through the Math Forest from 2018-05-10T15:16:41
There was this teacher who believed that the way math was taught could be different in her very rural county. That kids could better understand it and make it their own. That they could score much ...
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Episode 7 - Come Home, Daddy from 2018-04-23T19:59:09
Twenty-two years ago a crime took place in the middle of the night. It left a 5-year-old with scars and without her father. As she grew up, Katie Haught wanted the justice system to know the truth ...
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Episode 6 - Fourth-Grade Scientists from 2018-04-11T15:05:09
Two college students arrived at a school gym and showed young children how water works. By the end of it, the kids knew that water doesn't keep itself clean. And that science is this thing that Wes...
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Episode 5 - Full Color from 2017-12-07T15:02:31
What does the word “Appalachia” conjure? For a lot of people, the answer was “black and white photography.” You can still see a lot of the old-timey photos in a Google search. Nancy Andrews and 100...
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Episode 4 - Eyes Glowing from 2017-11-08T19:37:58
After the 2016 election, everyone wanted to get to know the real West Virginia. And it turns out that there’s a book that can help them do just that – and it’s full of some of the most noteworthy a...
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Episode 3 - Set to Refresh from 2017-10-26T20:01:24
A lot of people need jobs in Southern West Virginia. And area farmers needed to sell their food. Ben Gilmer put some skin in the game and is putting ex-coal miners back to work on mountaintop and r...
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Episode 2 - Girls Can Code from 2017-10-12T12:40:54
When Ysabel Bombardiere walked into a middle school classroom to recruit girls for a coding club, she heard boys say, “Girls cannot code.” The girls in the Kanawha County Girls Who Code club are no...
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Episode 1 - Old Home Place from 2017-09-26T14:04:40
You might know about Appalachian music. Kids in West Virginia sometimes don’t. Travis Stimeling and his band of college students are teaching them the music from their past and how it can be part o...
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Sparked Trailer from 2017-09-26T13:56:16
Sparked is a podcast of West Virginia University Magazine that is all about the people who are changing Appalachia’s future for the better.
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