Repeats
Friday, December 3rd @ 10:30am
Tuesday, December 14th @ 10:00am

Bob The Vid Tech is on a well deserved vacation at the beach - when suddenly a message in a bottle washes up on shore! Someone is in trouble, but they didn’t sign the note. Where is it from? How can Bob find out? And who the heck sends messages in a bottle these days?

Starring Emmy Award winning Bob Heck as MPT’s kid show host “Bob The Vid Tech”, and his talented Vid Tech apprentice Parris Lane (aka “Brianna”), Bob the Vid Tech: Message in a Bottle takes children on a tour of how humankind communicates - with languages, the mail, telephones and computers. It’s a mix of history, old fashioned ingenuity and gee-whiz science for kids!

Language & The Written Word:

Bob meets a Georgetown University expert who explains how the spoken word has evolved over time, expanded into over 6,000 languages around the world, and how some of them sound.

The Mail:

Bob visits the National Postal Museum in Washington, DC to learn why we write letters, how the mail service began in the U.S., how it is transported and what it takes to get to your front door.

Phones & Cell Phones:

Bob realizes that perhaps the numbers in the message may be a phone number! He meets with the phone company in Baltimore, MD., and discovers how telephones were invented, how they work and why phones and cell phones have boomed into the popular communication tool that they are today.

Email & The Internet:

Computers are humming across the country, connected by a tapestry of wires that form the internet. Bob joins two teachers and a class of children at the University of Maryland, College Park who help explain it all, and tell us how an email can fly around the world in seconds.

But who could have sent that message?

Stay tuned for the conclusion of

BOB THE VID TECH: MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE!