Episode #6
The Gadget Census & Chile’s Great Mine Escape
On this week’s show, we talk to Kris Sangini about the results of the 2010 Gadget Census. He looks back at what gadgets we had ten years ago and how things have changed. In Back to Black, Craig Smith profiles American engineer and inventor, Norman Rillieux and our STEM Ambassador of the Week is Nduka Ezediuno, a mechanical engineer from Tata Steel Europe who tells us how studying STEM subjects have helped him in his career. Finally, Juan Pablo Conti joins us down the line from Argentina to discuss the various methods of engineering being used to rescue the 33 miners trapped in Chile’s San Jose mine.