Health/Phys. Ed.

New York student Shadia Wood tells how she became an environmental activist in this video adapted from Earth Island Institute’s New Leaders Initiative. Wood lives near several toxic waste sites and was concerned to learn that the New York Superfund—the money set aside for cleaning such sites in her state—had gone bankrupt. Working with other students and environmental groups, Wood lobbied the New York legislature for eight years until the Superfund program was refinanced. Environmentalist Laura Haight says that this law was the most important environmental law passed in New York State in a decade.

See how a product designer for the health-care industry manufactures antimicrobial fabrics. To start on this career path, you should study marketing and customer service and have knowledge of consumer-product manufacturing and research.

Watch and learn how to explore career options from A to Z with the Lab Squad kids as they meet and interview career professionals.

KET producer/director Nick Helton describes all of the potential careers available in the production field.

KET staff photographer Steve Shaffer talks about skills one must possess in order to be successful in production.

KET producer/director Nick Helton discusses what skills are necessary to become a good director.

KET producer Erin Lowry discusses the roles of a producer.

KET technical director and editor Jim Piston talks about the importance of collaboration in a production.

We’re in Augusta to learn about careers in the medical field with a visit to Georgia Regents University! We’re inspired by a doctor specializing in wilderness medicine, who was actually the first person in his family to go to college. But if those years of medical school sound daunting to you, we also learn about being an athletic trainer, the field of nuclear medicine technology, and the artistic career of medical illustration.

We’re in Augusta to learn about careers in the medical field with a visit to Augusta University! We’re inspired by a doctor specializing in wilderness medicine, who was actually the first person in his family to go to college. But if those years of medical school sound daunting to you, we also learn about being an athletic trainer, the field of nuclear medicine technology, and the artistic career of medical illustration.

We take an inside look at the fields and careers of electronics technology, occupational therapy, emergency medical technician, cosmetology, dental assistant, and construction in this installment of Road Trip. Two girls apply for an entry-level job at a hospital whose strict policy requires employees to have a high school diploma or GED. Featured schools include Northwestern Technical College, Atlanta Technical College, and Gwinnett Technical College. 

If you're like us, you love watching Game of Thrones, but you may not have cable. In this case, how are we watching this amazing show on HBO, which is stuck behind a pay wall? A huge number of viewers are downloading the show illegally. But, despite being the most pirated show of 2012, the Game of Thrones DVDs are top sellers, breaking HBO's own sales records! Could it be that piracy is actually helping the show? 

You may have noticed "glitches," where people purposely push machines to malfunction and therefore create fascinating "mistakes." Instead of being frustrated and disdainful of these errors as we usually do when our technology fails mid-workflow, we find them to be bizarrely beautiful. Why are we so interested in these images, music, or objects that are structurally or formally broken? 

We love Steven Universe, but what makes it so great? Is it more than just a story of mismatched characters trying to save the world? Could Steven Universe really be about family and how it's impossible to define it universally? What else, or who else, can we call family? Are fandoms family? Can things be family?