MegaWorld: Argentina

$39.95

Description

Product Code: GH4626
UPC: 631865462629
ISBN: 1-58565-616-X
Grade Level: 6-12
Media Type: DVD

Product Description

MegaWorld is a fun, fast-paced, experiential approach to presenting a country or region’s innovations in science and technology. Hosted by Kevin Brauch, each episode highlights the biggest, fastest, most exciting engineering, automotive, and construction projects.

Travel to the biggest, fastest, most exciting engineering, automotive and construction projects across the globe. This series highlights a variety of innovative and awing scientific feats in different countries.

Argentina

Argentina makes some of the finest wines in the world, but it’s also quickly establishing itself as a technological giant in South America. The MegaWorld team will visit CONAE a civilian agency that builds and launches communication satellites for clients all over the world. We’ll get a rare, up close look at one of these huge communication devices and find out exactly what goes into manufacturing them. We’ll visit the world’s only factory that makes vintage aircraft from scratch and another firm that specializes in the manufacture and installation of artificial turf for South America’s largest football stadiums. We’ll feature the Syncrolift, a gigantic ship raising platform that can hoist a 55,000 ton ship off the ground for construction and maintenance, update the construction of new subway lines in Buenos Aires, and get up close with the world’s largest olive harvester….the Colossus.

Additional Information

Run Time: 46
Copyright: 2011
Marc Record: Yes
Studio: Distribution Access
Territory: Available in the U.S. Only