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.

Episode 10 - Five Milliseconds

May 16th, 2019 25m 12s

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.

Episode 9 - Star Hunters

Apr 4th, 2019 22m 9s

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

Episode 8 - Through the Math Forest

May 10th, 2018 28m 55s

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 wa

Episode 7 - Come Home, Daddy

Apr 23rd, 2018 32m 11s

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.

Episode 6 - Fourth-Grade Scientists

Apr 11th, 2018 16m 38s

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 i

Episode 5 - Full Color

Dec 7th, 2017 15m 11s

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.

Episode 4 - Eyes Glowing

Nov 8th, 2017 16m 51s

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.

Episode 3 - Set to Refresh

Oct 26th, 2017 16m 27s

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.

Episode 2 - Girls Can Code

Oct 12th, 2017 14m 11s

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?”

Episode 1 - Old Home Place

Sep 26th, 2017 10m 18s

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.