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01/13/2025

Connections Video podcast: New York State's early intervention model in crisis

By almost any measure, New York State's early intervention service model is in crisis. According to The Children's Agenda, providers are being severely under...

01/12/2025

WXXI Education E-News is posted. https://mailchi.mp/wxxi/wxxi-education-13392568 or Link in Bio.

01/12/2025

WXXI Education January E-News posted: https://mailchi.mp/wxxi/wxxi-education-13392568

01/11/2025

Gather the family together and get warm while watching a Wild Kratts winter marathon. Watch Saturday and Sunday starting at 6 p.m. for Polar Bears Don't Dance, Snow Runners, Under Frozen Pond, and Mystery of the North Pole Penguins.

01/08/2025

January is Braille Literacy Month to honor of the birthday of Louis Braille (January 4, 1809). the inventor of the Braille system. Learn what Braille is, and how it used as a mode of communication and literacy for people with blindness or visual impairments. https://ny.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/mti17.braille/braille/

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Learn what Braille is, and how it used as a mode of communication and literacy for people with blindness or visual impairments. The Braille alphabet is based on a code of six dots that are raised up and can be distinguished through touch. The video shows students using a Braille writer to type Brail...

01/08/2025

Inspired by an NPR story, a college engineering student had an idea! He started a student project 10 years ago that is now a company that 3-D prints kids' prosthetics to increase function & decrease the cost. https://www.npr.org/2025/01/08/nx-s1-5247643/3-d-printing-is-bringing-down-the-cost-to-make-prosthetics-for-children

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Prosthetics for children can be expensive because they need to adjust to their growth. Now 3-D printing is making them more affordable and flexible.

01/06/2025

Watch the Livestream tonight (1/6) at 9pm or on WXXI World https://www.wxxi.org/stations/world/

01/06/2025

NPR College Podcast Challenge deadline is approaching. Submit your podcast by January 10th. Here are resources and information to participate. Link in bio or https://www.wxxi.org/highlights/nprs-college-podcast-challenge/

01/06/2025

NPR College Podcast Challenge deadline is approaching. Submit your podcast by January 10th. Here are resources and information to participate.

The NPR College Podcast Challenge is back for its fourth year, with a $5,000 cash prize. And the opportunity to have your voice, your story, reach the NPR audience and beyond. The annual NPR College Podcast Challenge will accept entries by January 10, 2025 (Professor and school involvement is not re...

01/04/2025

We remember Britt Allcroft, who brought Thomas the Tank Engine to television and delighted all the young train fans of PBS KIDS.

The beloved blue locomotive was first imagined in the 1940s — he starred in stories Rev. Wilbert Awdry told his son. Allcroft adapted Awdry's The Railway Series into Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends.

01/03/2025

Happy Anniversary to with 14 years of creature powers and fun to teach kids about animals and habitat on !

01/02/2025

Rochester Teen Film Festival is open for submissions. Learn more and submit your video short by June 27. Link in bio or https://wxxi.org/rtff

01/01/2025

Let's Make 2025. An A+ Year!

01/01/2025

Happy New Year!

12/31/2024

Start the New Year at , 🥂 with and the amazing 🎤 For her soul-stirring ballads to show-stopping hits, it’s a celebration. Don't miss this! 🎵 Watch here through 1/29.
https://www.pbs.org/video/sara-bareilles-new-years-eve-with-the-national-symphony-orchestra-friends-pimtqy/

Stream on the PBS App 👉 pbs.org/show/next-kennedy-center/

12/31/2024

Learn about the principles of Kwanzaa:

A Video Clip from Cultural Expressions: Kwanzaa

12/30/2024

Remembering Jimmy Carter
https://us1.campaign-archive.com/?e=2f5fa13343&u=8aa1c620fd96b27384151c36e&id=60b50f1434