Sparked Podcast

WVU Magazine

5.0 (9)
SOCIETY & CULTURE

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.

02/27/2020

Episode 11 - How We Talk

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.

16 min
05/16/2019

Episode 10 - Five Milliseconds

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.

25 min
04/04/2019

Episode 9 - Star Hunters

Some high school students went into the mountains to learn to look for stars and discovered who they could become.

22 min
05/10/2018

Episode 8 - Through the Math Forest

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 higher. That teachers could stay longer. She was right.

29 min
04/23/2018

Episode 7 - Come Home, Daddy

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 about her dad.

32 min
04/11/2018

Episode 6 - Fourth-Grade Scientists

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 West Virginians do all the time. And they can do it, too.

17 min
12/07/2017

Episode 5 - Full Color

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 Days in Appalachia are changing that.

15 min
11/08/2017

Episode 4 - Eyes Glowing

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 and fresh literary voices from this place.

17 min
10/26/2017

Episode 3 - Set to Refresh

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 rooftop farms.

16 min
10/12/2017

Episode 2 - Girls Can Code

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 now saying, “Wanna bet?”

14 min
09/26/2017

Episode 1 - Old Home Place

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 of their future.

10 min
09/26/2017

Sparked Trailer

Sparked is a podcast of West Virginia University Magazine that is all about the people who are changing Appalachia’s future for the better.

2 min

12 Episodes

5

out of 5

9 Ratings

Fun and informative

06/17/2018

Floorcheese

Full disclosure: the host is an old friend of mine, and I don’t live in WV, but this is a great little way to learn more about what’s going on in the Mountain State.

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.

Creator

WVU Magazine
Years Active

2017 - 2020
Episodes

12
Rating

Clean
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