From: geoff@pmafire.inel.gov (Geoff Allen)
Newsgroups: rec.roller-coaster
Subject: Potential VCR alert!!!
Summary: PBS show features Magic Mountain's Viper and Arrow Dynamics
Keywords: VCR Arrow Magic Mountain Viper
Date: 5 Oct 92 21:03:48 GMT
Organization: Roller Coaster fanatic with no hope for a cure

Howdy, all.  My news scanner program scored a hit recently that y'all
might be interested in.  It comes from k12.chat.teacher...

| From: tflavell@pbs.org
| Newsgroups: k12.chat.teacher
| Subject: FUTURES with Jaime Escalante
| Date: 28 Sep 92 13:50:47 EDT
| Organization: PBS:Public Broadcasting Service, Alexandria, VA
| 
| The following instructional television series will be broadcast on many
| PBS stations during the 1992-'93 school year. Please contact the
| Education Services Director at your local PBS station to find out exact
| broadcast times if available. Simply E-mail TFLAVELL@PBS.ORG if you need
| the name and phone # of your local contact.
| 
| FUTURES with Jaime Escalante
|  Math, Science,
|  Careers
|  Grades 7-12
| 
| SERIES DESCRIPTION
| 
| 1.         TITLE                        FUTURES WITH JAIME ESCALANTE
| 
| 2.         NUMBER/LENGTH                12/15-Minute
| 
| 3.         SUBJECT/GRADE LEVEL          Math, Science, Careers/Grades
|                                         7-12
| 
| 4.         PRODUCER                     Foundation for Advancements in
|                                         Science and Education
| 
| 5.         PRODUCTION DATE              1990
| 
| 6.         DESCRIPTION
| 
| CLOSED CAPTIONED FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED
| 
| The award-winning FUTURES, hosted by famed-teacher Jaime
| Escalante and his actual students, captures his innovative
| teaching style (profiled in "STAND AND DELIVER").
| Escalante's tremendous success is based on the fact that
| students are usually better motivated when they can connect
| what they are studying now to what they will be doing in the
| future.  FUTURES is about how math relates to the working
| world -- to careers and jobs.  It is designed to motivate
| students to study math by showing them the many ways math is
| used, and the opportunities and life-styles available to
| those who have good math skills.
| 
| 7.  PROGRAM TITLES

[skip to the ``important'' one]

| 103: ARCHITECTURE AND STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING -- The great
| skylines of American cities are monuments to mathematics.
| Structures, from skyscrapers to rollercoasters, are only
| feasible because of mathematics in practice.  Pritzker Prize
| award-winning architect Frank Gehry joins Escalante in this
| program.  Viewers will go for a wild ride on Viper, Magic
| Mountain's newest, most daring rollercoaster, and meet
| Viper's designers, then go to New York City and meet Ysrael
| Seinuk, one of America's preeminent structural
| engineers, and Cooper Union's student engineers.
| Learning Objectives:
| * To familiarize students with architectural and structural
| engineering, past, present and future.
| * To show students basic math applications in the work place
| of architects and structural engineers, e.g. geometric
| shapes.

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Like I say, might be worth looking out for.

Geoff, tirelessly searching the entire net for roller-coaster related
postings. ;^)

p.s. It actually looks like it might be an interesting series.  At least
     to a nerd like me.
Newsgroups: rec.roller-coaster