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NOVA: Adventures of Teenage Scientists

Nova (1982)

Documentary | United States

Director: Kirk Wolfinger, Sarah Holt

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SEASON: 9

EPISODE: 14 - Adventures of Teenage Scientists

SYNOPSIS

NOVA introduces some of the winners of the 1982 Westinghouse Science Talent Search: high school students whose interests range from silkworms to solar cells. With education facing a deepening financial crisis, will this year's group of well-trained young scientists be among the last of the best and the brightest?

Actors

Voice: Eriq La Salle, Kay Tong Lim, Yu Beng Lim, Timothy Nga, Gerald Chew, Dan Ziskie, Craig S. Wollman, Patrice Donnell

Writer: Julia Cort, Joseph McMaster

Narrator: Will Lyman, Neil Ross

RUNTIME: 55 min

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