Cody Boston
Multimedia Producer/Director/Editor
Multimedia producer for Kansas City PBS and the producer of "Flatland in Focus".
Stories by Cody Boston
An Oasis for the Less Religious
Kansas City Oasis is a secular non-profit that allows atheists and agnostics to make human connections without spiritual commitments.
American Graduate Town Hall | Connecting Curriculum to Career
Educators, business executives and students discuss ways to match curriculum with careers at part of the "American Graduate: Getting to Work" town hall.
American Graduate Town Hall | Anticipating Future Jobs
About one in four jobs that today’s high school students will apply for when they enter the workforce hasn’t been created yet. That reality prompted William Chrisman High School senior Hannah Noel to ask during KCPT’s “American Graduate Town Hall” how students like her can best prepare for those jobs. The answer was not cut…
Kansas City Activists Rally Against Climate Change
**EDIT: The text at :11 in our feature video declares the deadline needed for the elimination greenhouse gas emissions is 2012. This is an error and the correct year is 2030** Kansas City-area activists are staging a “Climate Strike” at noon Friday on the steps of City Hall. Led by Sunrise Movement KC, tomorrow’s action…
American Graduate Town Hall | Career Education Relies On Community Engagement
Kansas City PBS recently brought together area high school students to discuss their futures as a part of our “American Graduate: Getting to Work” initiative. The town hall discussion, facilitated by Miles Sandler of the Kauffman Foundation, focused on student questions and local success stories. One consensus reached by students, teachers and business leaders alike…
Going Ape About Habitat at the Kansas City Zoo
Flatland's curiousKC teams explains what happened, and why, to the Great Ape House at the Kansas City Zoo.
“American Graduate: Getting to Work” | Inspiring Entrepreneurship With the MECA Challenge
The MECA Challenge is a one-day innovation competition that pushes students from diverse backgrounds to collaborate on solving real-life problems.
“American Graduate: Getting to Work” Sees Many Opportunities in Homebuilding
A strong economy and tight labor market are creating opportunities for workers willing to swing a hammer, and perhaps much more. As part of the “American Graduate: Getting to Work” series, we followed a group of students from the Kearney School District as they toured home construction sites. “We’re sending a lot of kids straight…
In Kansas and Missouri, Immigrants are Rooted in the Agriculture Workforce
Rows of workers perch on ladders. They hoist hundred-pound baskets, which get heavier with every apple they pluck, around their necks. That’s the grind 14 hours a day, every day except for Sunday, while they earn maybe $13 an hour. These workers – mostly from Mexico – tend to the apple orchards in Waverly, Missouri….
“American Graduate: Getting To Work” Sparking Firefighter Careers
There are few more mission-driven careers than being a firefighter. Just listen to the students and teachers at the Fort Osage Career & Technical Center. “Someone I’m very close to… got in a really bad wreck, and I know that if it hadn’t been for the first responders that were there, she would have been…