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Minnesota's Community Radio Stations
From the 1880s to the 1930s, the Finnish-language newspaper Uusi Kotimaa connected immigrant communities across Minnesota and the United States. Based largely in New York Mills, it served as a cultural lifeline for thousands of Finnish Americans. [Read Transcript...]
In 1923, the University of Minnesota launched the Red Wing Project, an experiment to bring electricity to rural farmers in the state. This experiment, believed to be the first of its kind in the world, inspired 23 other states to conduct their own electrification studies and led to the establishment of the national Rural Electrification Administration. [Read Transcript...]
Voyageurs Conservancy helps to introduce Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota’s only national park, to K-12 students through outdoor education and virtual workshops. [Read Transcript...]
Computer scientists at the University of Minnesota are building robots to monitor the water quality of Minnesota’s lakes. And they are recruiting middle schoolers around the state to build the robots and collect data! [Read Transcript...]
