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July 31 , 2018

‘One World, One Water’ charts Denver’s supply

Drones change the world of journalism

By Ellie Riemer, 12Denver

Team 8 from Youth Journalism Day took a journey around the Metro State University Denver campus and discovered how OWOW is

making a difference to Denver’s water supply. OWOW stands for “One World, One Water,” and is a

organization at MSUD that focuses on making our city and state more water-efficient.

Tom Cech, director of OWOW, led the tour and taught us all about water.

Cech and his staff are focusing on trying to get more xeriscaping on to the MSUD campus to conserve water.

Xeriscaping includes replacing grass on campus with plants that need little or no irrigation to survive.

On top of this, all of the sports fields on campus are artificial turf so they do not use water.

We asked Cech why he has decided to devote his career to working on water conservation efforts.

He replied that he knows that there is not enough water in Colorado for everyone and he has a passion for educating people about water.

So far, he has written five books about water conservation.

With the help of OWOW, MSUD has created a water studies class that students can minor in. This is the

first water studies class in the world, and was founded in 2011.

So far the program has had 114 students enroll and 44 graduate.

This course helps student learn about many topics concerning water, including water use, and water law at local and global levels.

Around the MSUD campus, there are multiple statues and other objects that represent the water

awareness lots of people in Denver have. The One World, One Water statue looks different

from each angle, depending on your perspective. From every angle though, it shows how water is

important in our lives. On the platform of this statue, there is a saying that

demonstrates just that. It says, “Water Is The Driver of Nature – Leonardo Da

Vinci.”Right in front of the Student Success building, there

is another object that reminds us how aware MSUD is of water conservation, the Atmospheric Water Harvester.

The Atmospheric Water Harvester sucks 4-5 liters of water out of the atmosphere per day.

Tom Cech says the Number One water-related concern for Colorado is the number of people moving here.

Statistics say that in the next 10 to 15 years, more than 1 million people will move to Colorado.

With this number of people drawing from the same water sources, there is potential for a drought, but hopefully with our city working to conserve water and be more water efficient, we can prevent this from ever happening.

If everyone does their part, lack of water will never be a problem!

By Maya Fahy, 12Longmont

Drones are becoming more and more common. You may have heard of people using drones for things like racing,

farming, or finding lost people, but drones are also used for journalism! Today, drones are helping journalists all over the world to capture a perspective

on stories that the world has never seen. They can be used to get footage of forest fires or other natural disasters. You

could see an entire forest fire at once, instead of just a tiny section of it. Before drones, people had to use a helicopter to get photos like that.Drones are much more affordable -- and in some situations, safer -- than

helicopters, which cost thousands of dollars. They help us see the full picture. For example: if you saw a picture of “terrible

Denver traffic” but you were only shown a photo of three cars stuck in traffic, it wouldn’t seem like “terrible Denver traffic.”

With this technology, you could see hundreds of cars at once. Being able to see all of something, or many small things at once, is incredibly valuable. 

Drones have been around for more than a decade, but they have only been popular among journalists since about 2013.

Companies such as BBC, New York Times, and CNN have all used drones for journalism.

Use of drones is even taught at journalism schools such as those at the University of Missouri, University of Nebraska, and University of Georgia.

At Youth Journalism Day my team and I got to fly a drone. It was easy to control, and you could get a really cool perspective very quickly.

Dave Kinney and Kip Wotkyns taught us about the different kinds of drones and how to fly them.

Some are just for racing and can’t take pictures, while others have expensive

cameras and are great for taking aerial footage.People also use drones to take photos or videos to put on social media. They can be used to cover sporting events, too. They were used during the

Pyeong Chang Olympics last winter, and are helpful for covering ball games. You have to get permission to fly a drone pretty much anywhere that’s not your

own property.Drones will continue to become more advanced, and journalists will use them

more and more. Soon we will see drones everywhere, and be able to see stories in a completely different way.

Sixty-five young writers between eight and 14 years old gathered recently on the campus of Metropolitan State University Denver for the Denver Post

Educational Program’s annual Youth Journalism Day.After a morning of instruction and exercises from faculty

members of MSUD’s journalism department on topics including basic journalism, interviewing techniques, photography and effective writing, they divided into teams

and went out onto the campus to gather information and photographs from presenters on a variety of topics.

They then went into computer labs and did what professional journalists do every day: They had an hour and a half to turn what they had learned into interesting, accurate stories.

Here is a sample of their work. To see more of their stories, visit http://nextgen.yourhub.com/

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photo/Maya Fahy

The One World, One Water statue photo/Ellie Reimer

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By Stella Abernathy, 11Arvada

The year is 2018 and people’s lives revolve around modern technology. Journalism is a degree that has been around for a long time, previously

seen through the newspaper and magazines. Now we use our smartphones to check the news in the morning and we can

watch the news online.At Metro State University in Denver, Met Media Director Steve Haigh spoke about

the changes happening. “Technology basically runs what you do,” he said to kids at Youth Journalism

Day at the university, who were learning about being a journalist and working on computers to edit photos.

He talked about how the Met Media Office’s main goals are for students at the university “to learn and build their skills in Photoshop, for pictures, or editing vid-eos, or working on writing deadlines,” which all can be applied to journalism and photojournalism.

These technologies are making a difference in the way important things taking place in the world are communicated to people.

Although there are perks with this new opportunity for journalism, technology can also cause gateways for “fake news.”

Asked about the bad side of having new technology involved in journalism, Haigh said “almost everything has a kernel of truth in it but is embellished a lot of the time.”

Magazine covers are often embellished to catch the eye of a reader wanting something entertaining to read about, and many websites and videos provide false information.

It’s important, he said, to find a source of news you can trust because of these risks.

Haigh makes a good point when he says, “Who do you trust? The people shout-ing at each other on cable news? The entertainment reporter?”

Journalism still takes its same stand: To get people the information they want

and need to know everyday. Media is an important part of life today because it spreads knowledge of events

happening that will affect others. Technology gives an opportunity for this to happen and for communication

amongst cities and countries and to everybody who needs to know it to be easier. And it makes some of the issues around it harder.

By Joey Otteman, 11Golden

The topic for our group was “Mission to Mars.” We were with Karlee Nasalroad, of the Denver

Museum of Nature and Science, who instructed us and led us through our activities.

We learned about a few of the difficulties that could happen if we were able to achieve the goal of training for a Mars Mission by doing four interactive activities on the topic.

First, we programmed a toy mouse as a rover to practice and get a small sense of what it would be like.

It would move around the terrain and reach its destination if you did it right.

This was the first navigation activity that we did. The next involved an I-pad and us splitting into pairs. In our separate pairs we chose one person as

commander and one as pilot. The pilot would read from the screen to the commander

then the commander would tell the pilot what to do.In our third activity we connected toy boards with each other as to fix “solar

panels.”For this, we put on astronaut costumes that made it a lot

harder to grab the boards for the panel. It felt pretty silly, but we learned a lot in the process. Astronauts have to face this sort of challenge

sometimes because it is essential to have solar panels: Without them the ship doesn’t have power and you don’t have lights.

The last activity we did was building oxygen tubes. We had little plastic tubes and other fake parts of an

oxygen tube and we had to “build” this oxygen tank. We split up into teams and all tried to build the tank. None of the teams succeeded. All the tubes were different shapes and none of them

were the shapes we were looking for. It was hard for all of us.

New technologies; new ethical challenges

Future astronauts try Mars mission tasks

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Kathleen Jewby, Creative Director of Met Media, Left, Steve Haigh, Director of Met Media, Right photo/Montana Martin

photo/NASA

Design major offersmany opportunities

Chef cooks up food and tasteful futures

By Margaret Gallup, 12, and Sierra Gallup, 13,

Arvada

Metropolitan State University’s industrial design and aero-space department moved into

a new building in July 2017.The department has allowed more

options for learning woodworking, 3-D printing programs, graphic designs, advanced manufacturing, and studio classes.

STEAM, which stands for science, tech-nology, engineering, art, and math, is an important facet of MSUD’s program.

This combination helps with indus-trial design, the professional service of creating and optimizing the function, value and appearances of an creation.  

This impacts millions of people around the world.

Their industrial design department is the only one like it in Colorado and one of 36 in the United States.

This impacts Colorado because now the rest of the state has something to build from in the future.

The chair of the industrial design department, Dr. Ted Shin, is focusing on the future.

“I like to design things for the future,” Shin said, “It’s really fun.”  

Shin started by making South Korea’s Samsung flip phone, which then evolved into the newly updated Samsungs.

Shin continued to work in Korea as a Samsung designer before finally com-ing to MSUD as a professor.

He has been studying industrial de-signs for 25 years with 13 professional years at MSUD.

“When you graduate from high school,” Shin recommended, “go into industrial design.”

The new building, and availability of new materials, allows the school’s graduates many great opportunities, he explained.

Without the new building there would be no way that a graduate could advance in 3-D printing, wood making and so many more areas.

The building has allowed the dreams of MSUD students to come alive.

By Lena Drakos, 10Centennial

Chef Jeff Koch teaches college students to cook and fulfill their dreams. He also teaches people who are homeless, or just got out of jail, to restart

their life and become chefs. The Hospitality Learning Center, the building where Koch works, has been

standing for about 5 years in Metropolitan State University of Denver. Koch educates about 18 students in each lesson, and has two classes a day. His students cook, but only for themselves to eat. They also learn how to open their own restaurants.When Koch was younger, he didn’t want to be a professional cook, but turned

out to be a great one. He’d been cooking since he was 16. He’s always enjoyed camping, biking, and nature. He also loves to play sports.His favorite chef was Anthony Bourdain, who, sadly, recently passed away. Koch has three kids who don’t want to be chefs, but have a good futures ahead

of them. Another part of his family are his three dogs. He loves his personal life, but he loves his job as well.Chef Koch loves to make fish; his favorite part is chopping it all up. He has cooked for many celebrities, but he only listed three: John Elway, Barack

Obama, and Bill Clinton. Teaching his students is his favorite part of his job. Most students who come to learn come for their passion. He plans to keep doing his job and sharing it with many other people.

Automobile prototype being designed by Metro State ID students. photo/Sierra Gallup photo/Alex Menon

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Different generations, different relationships

Big Nate

Joanne Rowling was born on this date in 1965. She had no middle name, but later added “Kathleen” and uses her first two initials as an author. Our answers this week will each begin with the letter “H” for her most famous character.

1. Who is Joanne Rowling’s most famous character?

2. What is the term for half the Earth (or any sphere)?

3. A very small town, or Shakespeare’s Danish prince

4. Our governor

5. Port au Prince is the capital of this Caribbean nation.

6. Head covering worn by many Muslim women and young girls

7. Large African animal whose name means “river horse”

8. He was President of the United States between Calvin Coolidge and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

9. A barrier placed across a track for runners to jump over during a race

10. Broncos All-Pro cornerback who wears number 25(answers on Page Four)Rules: Every row across, every column down and each of the six smaller boxes must

contain numerals 1,2,3,4,5 and 6, one time and one time only.The solution to this week’s puzzle is on Page 4.

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By Adilyn Skibinski, 13Broomfield

How is the word “nuclear” thought of? For many, it is “deadly weapons.” To some, their

first thought may be “danger.”Few people realize how particularly harmless nuclear

power can be, according to Dr. Jeff Loats, and it may be harmful to continue to have that fear.

The definition of nuclear energy is “the energy released during nuclear fission.”

It is less harmful than coal, Loats says, yet people are still fearful of using nuclear energy.

Loats, a nuclear physicist and director of the Center for Faculty Excellence at Metropolitan State University Denver, believes “if we want to fix damage we’ve done, we should involve nuclear.”

Along with other benefits, the amount of energy cre-ated takes a far less amount of mass than other processes, making it better for people and the environment.

So why are people still afraid to use nuclear?Understanding the process of nuclear power can eliminate misleading opinions. Fission, the process of splitting atoms, is the first step of nuclear power creation. When a neutron crashes into a uranium atom, the atom will break apart into two

and release many additional neutrons, creating other reactions. This process then is contained into heat then channeled into steam.

The steam turns turbines, which then creates power. Nuclear power may seem complicated, Loats says, but it

is worth it to save people, energy, and the planet.Deaths from power plants are unavoidable, he admitted,

but by choosing to use nuclear power, lives are saved. Most people are unaware of the number of deaths

from nuclear power compared to coal or other power processes.

It may look like a lot at the nuclear accidents, but overall, the number of deaths for the amount of energy produced is far less than other power sources.

From most power sources, global warming is gaining strength. However, nuclear power has almost no similar effect.

Climate change alone will affect many and even kill some, he said, making death more common from these other power sources, which makes nuclear power a better option for many. Loats says the fear of nuclear power is preventing people

from improving our future and creating a safer and more efficient energy source. By expanding their knowledge and eliminating the fear of nuclear power, people

can open their minds, he insists.People need not only to focus on the present, but also the future. Our fossil fuel

supply will run out eventually. If, as a group, people include nuclear power in the future, Jeff Loats predicts, the

world may be safer, more efficient, and a better place for everyone

Nuclear a safer power source, professor says

By Julianna Schubert, 10Boulder

In each family, the kids’ relationships with their grandparents tend to be different than the ones their parents have.

In most families, kids tend to have a healthier relation-ship than adults with their grandparents.

Kids usually love and care for their grandparents, and they love and care for the kids.

Grandparents sometimes think parents are making bad decisions, so they don’t always get along.

An adult we interviewed, Mariah Hansen, said that she

thought of her grandparents as hardworking and strict, and that they had high values.

She also added, “I think being strict is a positive be-cause otherwise they wouldn’t have got anything done, living with 9 children on a farm.”

Kids shared their own positive opinions, and said they thought of their grandparents as hard working, giving, kind, happy, interesting, and respected.

Kids also shared their negative opinions, and said their grandparents could also be mean and a little slow.

In all, kids have a better relationship with grandpar-ents than their parents might, but it sometimes can be the other way around.

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Team members brainstorm adjectives that describe their grandparents. photo/Julianna Schubert

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Metro State has its studentspositively climbing the walls

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By Ellie Perak,  11,and Merry Shukert, 11

Denver

Rock climbing is a sport many people enjoy. Metropolitan State University of Denver Recreation Center offers its students a rock climbing

wall.  Jared Current, a Junior at MSUD works at the center and climbs the rock wall at least once every-

day. Current has been working at the MSUD rock wall for a couple of years. In his free time he also likes

to climb at other indoor gyms and outdoors at rocks, boulders, mountains, and a climbing place called Movement.

Katie Wolf works at the gym front desk. Wolf is a senior at MSUD and she mostly only climbs at this college. She has been working here

since February, and, when she works, she mostly just supervises, rather than helping out on the rock wall.

When she climbs, she said, she usually does not use the ropes.Jazmin Serrano is also a student at MSUD but never climbs the rock wall, and stays at the front

desk. According to Serrano, a dozen people come into the rock climbing area daily.Current, Wolf, and Serrano taught us a lot of new things about rock climbing and the MSUD rock wall.

Healthy minds, healthy bodiesBy Lola Lopez, 9,

Denver,and Layla Cohrs, 9,

Parker

The Department of Human Performance and Sports has students come and be active with lots of different equipment.  

They have things that  you may have not seen before. There is a room with plaques that is a athletic hall of fame honoring the most athletic people who went to the school.

There are also two cases with a net on a plaque and trophies. Next to the plaque and roped tro-phies that looked like basketball hoops are two glass cups that are for the men’s division.

Another thing we saw there was a large gym with three courts and folding out bleachers.

We saw a fitness room and outside there is a colorful picture of a person climbing a mountain and a black staircase going down to the other fitness room that we couldn’t go into.

In another fitness room we went into, we liked one of the machines, a large machine where you pulled a rope and could control the weight.

Also there were  wires connecting to the computers in the fitness room and a white ball with two large holes to put your hands in and get chalk if your hands are sweaty.

The TVs on the wall were also connected to the computers so the students could watch how to do a workout move.

There is a window to the pool that we looked through and the large pool with two diving boards one lower and one taller.

The levels of the pool were three feet six inches and four feet and 13  feet. When we left the window we went to a classroom that is a science room. On one side there is a classroom with chairs and tables and a teacher’s desk with a chalkboard.On the other side there are two very expensive treadmills that were connected to computers so

you could test out workout stuff. Two black doors close to separate the classroom from another room where were two expensive

treadmills that could also connect to the computers. It is a good resource for students to use when they want to exercise and learn.  

James Webster, a Sophomore, lifts weights daily at the MSUD Denver fitness center. Photo/Nora Rowe

Jared Current, a Junior at MSUD, works at the Recreation Center and climbs the rock wall at least once every-day. photo/Merry Shukert