Survival Test

Survival Test

Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Prison Order, Space in Space, Sweating Robots

Episode: Prison Order, Space in Space, Sweating Robots

  • Jun 4, 2021 8:00 pm
  • 15:33 mins

For over 40 years, 8th-grade students at Schoenbar Middle School in Alaska have taken an unusual kind of end-of-year example, a test of survival. The Coast Guard drops them off on an empty island with a couple of supplies. Schoenbar Middle School science teacher Frankie Urquhart explains the rigorous test her students go through. (Originally aired: June 8th, 2020)