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Aurora School to Appear on WTTW Show
Class from Fred Rogers Magnet Academy was one of six chosen to star on Channel 11 kids science TV show.
Students from an Aurora school will appear this Sunday on WTTW-PBS TV’s “Moochie Kalala Detectives Club.”
Teacher Julie Weintraub’s third-graders at Fred Rogers Magnet Academy will star in an episode of the kids’ science show slated to air at 11 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 22.
The classroom was one of six chosen from 100 Chicagoland applicants to appear on the show, and was awarded a $250 science grant.
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Fred Rogers students will appear during the last three minutes of the Feb. 22 show to lead viewers through a science experiment, according to a news release.
Each episode of “Moochie Kalala Detectives Club” features a different city museum and its scientist. The Feb. 22 show, the last episode of season 1, also features the Shedd Aquarium’s marine mammals trainer Elizabeth Davis.
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The show “sends kids on a fact-finding mission at Chicago’s top museums and cultural attractions to uncover the truth from real scientists,” according to a news release.
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