Did you know that most people are seldom more than 10 feet from a complex engineered metal casting? What’s a metal casting?? It’s the backbone of our entire manufacturing industry, creating about 90% of all manufactured goods! Metalcasting, it’s an essential vital part of modern life, an industry key to our future, with great career opportunities!

Spotlight On: The Modern Metalcasting Industry

Underwriter: American Foundry Society

Aired in 2023

(Total Running Time: 5:17)

Most of us don’t even begin to appreciate the Earth’s surface . . . or what’s under it! We just think it’s something you walk on to get where you’re going . . . and a place for the earthworms! That’s what the ground is! But actually there’s a lot more going on beneath the ground . . . than you might think.

Spotlight On: Geoscientists without Borders

Underwriter: Society of Exploration Geophysicists

Aired in 2021

(Total Running Time: 5:14)

Spotlight On: Therapy Dogs

Underwriter: Alliance of Therapy Dogs

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The electric transmission grid powers the future.

Spotlight On: Wires

Underwriter: Wires Group

Spotlight On: Connecting America Coast to Coast

Underwriter: AMTRAK

Surveyors do so much more than . . . measure boundaries! Today’s surveyors use an array of new technologies . . . like 3D laser scanning to establish underground subway systems. Or Forensic surveyors investigate crime scenes like detectives. To help the defense - he’s measuring skid marks and a car’s relative position to the horizontal and vertical alignment of the sun, proving it wasn’t even this car that ran the light! Robotic Theodolites are busy mapping in ‘unfriendly’ places - like swamps or mines! The shipping industry relies on Hydrographic surveyors, because the terrain underneath bodies of water constantly changes.

Spotlight On: Surveying

Underwriter: American Congress of Surveying and Mapping

Aired in 2010

(Total Running Time: 7:32)

Spotlight On: Scientists Who Save the World

Underwriter: American Society for Clinical Pathology

Candles today - are used for making much more . . . than just light! They now create an entire atmosphere - by inviting the sense of ‘scent’ to join the candle! Today’s scented candle is a far cry from what started 3,000 years ago in China - where they made them from whale blubber and bees wax!

Spotlight On: The Scented Candle

Underwriter: Yankee Candle

Aired in 2014

(Total Running Time: 4:00)

There’s a lot more to a ‘scent’ or fragrance than you’d think.

Spotlight On: Making Scents

Underwriter: International Fragrance Association

Aired in 2013

(Total Running Time: 5:28)

Spotlight On: Designing Out Plastic Pollution

Underwriter: U.S. Plastics Pact

Spotlight On: Travel

Underwriter: American Society of Travel Agents

Spotlight On: Willing, Able & Seeking Opportunity

Underwriter: American Council of the Blind

Spotlight On: The Unappreciated Roof

Underwriter: Owens Corning Roofing & Asphalt

Spotlight On: Engineering Boat Safety

Underwriter: Belzona Marine

Spotlight On: Protecting Your Property Rights

Underwriter: American Land Title Association

Spotlight On: Pipelines

Underwriter: Pipeline Assoc for Public Awareness

Spotlight On: Financing a Home

Underwriter: National Association of Mortgage Brokers

Spotlight On: Advancing Automation

Underwriter: Assoc for Advancing Automation

Spotlight On: California Flowers

Underwriter: Calif Cut Flower Commission

Spotlight On: Teleservices

Underwriter: Association of Teleservices International

Spotlight On: Underwriter: Funeral Directors

Underwriter: National Funeral Directors Assoc

Spotlight On: American Public Works

Underwriter: American Public Works

Spotlight On: Metalcasting

Underwriter: American Foundry Society

Spotlight On: Infrastructure

Underwriter: U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Spotlight On: The Sentencing Project

Underwriter: The Sentencing Project