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NewsDepth 2023-2024 | Episode 12

This week on the show: News of the year, consumer spending, and a dance group from Akron.

In this week’s episode, We review what we learned this year in the news.

The holidays are here! And that means… It's shopping season.

A dance group from Akron is competing nation-wide.

And Mary tells us all about our musical state.

Slang (noun): The vocabulary among the people of specific social group.

Engineering (noun):The branch of science that uses math and technology to solve problems and increase productivity.

Minimum wage (noun): The lowest wage per hour that a worker may be paid, as mandated by law.

For our next episode – next year – we’ll have another new Career Callout segment. This time about engineering.

But we need your help coming up with interview questions.

For our write-to-us this week we want you to send in your questions about a job in engineering.

And come back in January, to hear a professional answer your questions about their job.

Students can submit their questions online through our inbox form.

Past generations thought they were pretty groovy, hip, awesome or radical. today's kids might describe themselves as - lit..

It means the same thing... but slang keeps evolving.

We asked students from Invictus High School what are some of their favorite new slang words this year.

For this week’s poll, we want to know which of these would you pick to be the new slang word for 2023.

You can choose between: salty, cap, simp, buku, or bap.

Click here to vote!


The NewsDepth team will take a holiday break! Next episode will post on January 11, 2024

Natalia Garcia is a digital producer for the education team at Ideastream Public Media.