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Show On GSENM Students To Watch Nationwide Show On Area Dinosaur Find KANAB Students from all over the country are invited to participate in a program that centers around a spectacular partial dinosaur skeleton with skin impressions, discovered in the heart of the Grand Staircase-Escalante Staircase-Escalante National Monu-ment (Kaiparowits Plateau). The program pro-gram will also explore various field and laboratory techniques scientists use to study such fossils. fos-sils. Kanab High School students Savanna Davenport, Katy Stirland, Cody Brunner, and Malena Grosz, will be featured in a nationwide broadcast on dinosaurs Oct. 25. The students have been given the unique opportunity to co-host a special one hour television broadcast, via satellite, into schools nationwide. nation-wide. "It's really great to have the Kanab students involved. They are a top-notch group and their enthusiasm has really made it happen for us," said Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Paleontologist Alan Titus. The live program will be aired from both the Museum of Northern Arizona and a television televi-sion studio at the BLM National Training Center in Phoenix with the Kanab students hosting from both places. Also featured on the show will be BLM paleontologists Alan Titus, the scientist who discovered the skeleton, and Dr. Laurie Bryant, as well as Museum of Northern Arizona paleontologists Drs. David Gillette and Barry Albright, the scientists who are currently studying the dinosaur in their laboratory. Much more than just a passive pas-sive viewing experience, the interactive broadcast will allow student viewers to call in and ask questions, and compete for prizes such as T-shirts and replicas repli-cas of the actual bones that were excavated. Already thousands of students stu-dents in grades 5-9 have signed up for this course, including the entire state of South Carolina and several other states. The broadcast, resulting from a partnership between the BLM and the Museum of Northern Arizona, will be viewed by school children throughout the United States and is the most extensive broadcast of its kind for the BLM. For more information infor-mation on how to get a class signed up to participate, visit the website: www.blm. goveduca-tion goveduca-tion or contact Marietta Eaton or Alan Titus at (435) 644-4300 or Chris McAlear (435) 644-4302. There are no deadlines but it is suggested that classrooms sign up as soon as possible. |