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Introducing First Program’s Gotitas del Saber Podcast

Gotitas del Saber Podcast - ¡Porque saber, te da poder! 

Gotitas del Saber podcast is a project at the First Program that highlights contributions made by the Hispanic and Latinx communities to global culture.
The podcast includes fun facts about language variations in Spanish, English, and Spanglish and is broadcast every Monday at 8:15 AM at the FP. 

Each week, two students can serve as podcast hosts and share a drop of knowledge. This is an opportunity for students to express their voices and advocate for themselves and their heritage or to actively acknowledge how the contributions of the Hispanic and Latinx communities impact and inspire their lives in a positive and meaningful way.

Gotitas del Saber, or Drops of Knowledge, is named after short Puerto Rican TV clips of the same name. These TV segments taught young people about science, history, and other subjects. Inspired by the childhood memories of watching these clips, Dalton 2nd Grade Spanish Teacher Nivia Marrero created this podcast in collaboration with the FP Spanish Team and Daniel Cruz from New Lab.

To date, the Gotitas del Saber podcast has four episodes highlighting: Pura Belpré, the first Puertorrican librarian in New York; El Chocolate, an original Mexican delicacy; El Día de los Muertos, a yearly celebration of our ancestors; and the invention of color television, by Guillermo Gonzáles Camarera, a Mexican electrical engineer.

Esto fue una Gotita del Saber, porque saber, te da poder (this was a drop of knowledge because knowledge is power). We look forward to empowering our students through knowledge in future episodes of Gotitas del Saber!

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