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Hello and welcome to the show. I'm Koi

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Wire. It is Wednesday, March 25th. It is

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also your word Wednesday here on CNN 10.

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So listen up. See if the vocabulary word

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that you submitted helped us write

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today's show. Let's get to it. We begin

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with the ongoing chaos at airport

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security lines across the United States

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this week, mostly a result of the

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partial government shutdown, which is

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now in its second month. As of this

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taping, lawmakers are still working

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towards a funding deal to reopen the

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Department of Homeland Security, the

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issue at the center of the shutdown, and

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it's causing extreme delays and

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frustration at some of the country's

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busiest airports. At Houston's George

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Bush Intercontinental Airport, travelers

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have faced long lines at all hours of

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the day with warnings that wait times

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could exceed 4 hours. At Atlanta's

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Hartsfield Jackson International

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Airport, the busiest airport in the

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world by passenger volume, lines snake

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through baggage claim all the way

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outside at times. Officials stopped

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posting wait times because lines were

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too long for computer systems to track.

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>> This is insane. We didn't think it was

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going to be this bad. I got there 3

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hours early and I made it to my gate

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like 20 minutes before they were

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boarding. It was bad.

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>> The delays are largely due to a growing

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number of Transportation Security

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Administration or TSA officers calling

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off. They haven't been paid in more than

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a month, and many say they needed to

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find part-time jobs. DHS says more than

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450 officers have quit since the

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shutdown began. Many have continued

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working without pay. Some relying on

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things like food banks to get by.

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>> My son usually goes to spring break

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camps and I can't afford that right now

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because I mean there's no money coming

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in and it's just I don't know what to do

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anymore. There's no babysitter. I'm up

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to my last like almost $100.

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>> On Monday, the federal government

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deployed Immigration and Customs

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Enforcement or ICE agents to some of the

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hardest hit airports. ICE agents are

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considered essential employees and are

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paid during shutdowns. Officials say

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more could be deployed this week to

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support TSA with things like crowd

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control.

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>> This is about going to helping TSA do

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their mission and get the American

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public through that airport as quick as

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they can while while adhering to all the

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security guidelines.

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>> Some critics, including TSA workers,

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appear skeptical that the move will help

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improve an already untenable situation.

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>> I don't believe that they're trained in

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a way that they can help us. Since I've

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been here, I've seen them outside

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standing around. I don't know if if they

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are doing anything. I don't know.

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>> I guess the question that now has to be

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asked is this going to be the new norm?

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You know, is is every weekend uh you

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know going to be a 5 6 hour wait uh at

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the checkpoints to get get on your

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flight if you can even make it.

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>> I do say that I think they should just

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fund uh the Department of Homeland

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Security, pay those workers. They're

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here for a reason to protect us every

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day. And

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I don't think ice agents should really

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be up there just filling in the hole.

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>> Pop quiz hot shot. Which layer of the

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atmosphere contains the oxygen and

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nitrogen humans and animals use to

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breathe? Troposphere, methosphere,

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thermosphere, or stratosphere.

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If you said troposphere, you're a breath

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of fresh air. The stratosphere protects

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our planet from harmful UV rays, but

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pollutants like vehicle emissions and

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burning fossil fuel can damage both

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layers of our atmosphere. A newly

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released global study is sounding the

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alarm on the global rise in air

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pollution in certain cities. The report

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from IQ Air analyzes air pollution data

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from 9,500 cities in 143 countries with

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a 23% jump in unhealthy air particles.

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The report ranks Looney, India as the

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most polluted city on the planet, likely

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driven by dust storms, seasonal smog,

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industrial emissions, and crop burning.

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Only about 14% of cities worldwide met

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the World Health Organization's air

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quality guidelines in 2025, down from

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17% the year before. But the good news

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is there are plenty of cities and

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countries taking care of the air up

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there. According to Noah and NASA,

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scientists say the hole in the ozone

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layer is shrinking. Last year, it was

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the fifth smallest since 1992.

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A survey of largely unexplored limestone

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caves in northwestern Cambodia has just

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uncovered a range of new species. They

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include a turquoise pit viper, a flying

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snake, several geckos, two micro snails,

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and two millipedes. The conservation

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charity Fauna and Flora surveyed the

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region between November of 2023 and July

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of 2025. It explored 64 different caves

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across 10 hills. Our next musings take

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us to the museum with a

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behind-the-scenes look at the High

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Museum of Art in Atlanta. Turns out

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there are a lot of career paths

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available to those of us with an

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interest in art. We got to explore one

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exhibit that blends fashion, creativity,

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and innovation, and learn the different

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careers that bring big ideas from

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runways to museum floors. Check it out.

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Here at the High Museum in Atlanta,

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Georgia, if you love art, did you ever

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think about making a career out of it?

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Creativity isn't just in the art we see.

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It's something people do for a living.

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From bold fashion exhibitions to

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hands-on learning programs, a whole team

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works behind the scenes to make art

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meaningful for visitors of all ages. One

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of their most eye-catching projects was

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the Victor and Ralph fashion exhibition,

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and we got to learn about the work

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behind the WOW. They create these

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designs that are sculpture. So, they

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push the edge, and they're very

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theatrical. They're very unexpected

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upside down dresses and perforated

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things and things that a lot of people

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say to me that's impossible to wear and

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I said yeah they want to challenge you

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to think about what fashion is and

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fashion as sculpture and that I think is

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a very big part of what we wanted to

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convey here at the high is that sure

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fashion is art absolutely it's design

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but it is also art and when you walk

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through these galleries we wanted you to

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feel it was almost like a theatrical

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production

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or an opera

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>> from vision

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to fruition.

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>> Immediately begin working with our

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in-house exhibition designer and her

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team to envision what this is going to

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look like. What are the paint colors?

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Where is the music going to be playing?

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How do all of these sort of

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technological aspects, how are those

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integrated into the exhibition for our

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venue? Months of design, construction,

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and collaboration helped bring the

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international show from Munich to

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Atlanta, but exhibitions are only part

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of the museum's mission.

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>> I work in our learning and civic

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engagement department, and it's my job

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to try to make us a a more

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thought-provoking institution. So, my

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job is to research, to learn more about

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our visitors.

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>> Her work focuses on how people,

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especially young visitors, connect with

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the art. I'm so wowed by the personal

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connections these young people make, you

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know, with these works of art because

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it's not so much about exactly what the

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artist wanted you to know, that intent,

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but it's what the artist made you feel.

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And young people are so open and so they

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make amazing connections. I almost

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always learn something new when I talk

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to kids in front of art,

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>> just like these awesome students we ran

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into on a field trip.

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>> RISE UP. Museums rely on many careers

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from educators to event planners to

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storytellers.

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>> It's a business, right? So, we need a a

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chief of financial officer. We need

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accountants, right? We need people who

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are great at logistics and can help us

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manage a huge event. Um people who raise

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money, people who um know how to tell a

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great story. We have a big PR and

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marketing department. That's an

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important part of our business. So, it's

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a there's a lot of different kinds of

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jobs at an art museum. For chief curator

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Kevin Tucker, that career began with

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curiosity about how things are made. And

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even as technology evolves, Kevin says

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human creativity remains irreplaceable.

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AI is just another tool in the toolbox.

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And I think it has to draw from existing

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bodies of creativity, existing bodies of

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work. But what I think is so very

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special about the individual's

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interaction with art and the creative

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process is just that individuality and

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the individual expression I think is

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always going to be conveyed by those

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works that are touched by individuals.

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>> The museum's goal to leave visitors

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inspired to see the world in a new way.

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What's the one thing you hope people

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take away from this exhibit?

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>> I'm going to say two. Okay.

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>> And that's excitement and curiosity. And

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I think if you're curious, excitement

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follows. You know, that's one of those

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things because you're discovering new

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things as you walk through the

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galleries. And it's always been my hope

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that visitors walk away and go, you know

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what? I want more. I want to know more

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about art and I want to be involved in

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that. So, if they walk away excited and

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curious, I'm happy.

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Today's story getting a 10 out of 10. A

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group of students from Bangor, Maine,

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reaching for the stars, literally.

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>> We're sending yeast to the stratosphere.

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>> The science project called Yeast in the

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Stars will expose active baker's yeast

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to UV radiation and freezing

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temperatures and then measure the

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changes back on Earth. It's all part of

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NASA's Techrise Student Challenge, a

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nationwide competition where students

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design real experiments for flights.

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From high alitude balloons to suborbital

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spacecraft, these students are one of 25

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teams selected.

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>> I was super duper happy when I uh heard

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that our school won.

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>> Students built the project themselves,

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learning skills like coding, soldering,

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and engineering along the way.

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>> We're learning how to solder. We're

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learning hands-on stuff. Wiring it.

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They're learning a lot, too. And

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mounting is it's amazing. The team

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presents its work to NASA in May,

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turning a classroom idea into a real

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mission in motion. All right,

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superstars, we have a shout out going to

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Miss Dejar at the Artsbased School in

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Winston Salem, North Carolina. Thank you

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for making us part of your day. Rise up.

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Wednesday winners, Mr. Galott's class at

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adjective meaning unable to be defended,

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maintained, or justified against

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criticism. Thank you for increasing our

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vocab today. I'll see you tomorrow,

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