On The Spark from WMRA: Beth Neville fell in love with San Mateo Ixtatán, a Chuj-Maya speaking town in the most mountainous part of Guatemala. The Charlottesville-based non-profit which Beth started helped the town get its first high school.
Charlottesville’s Susan Skalak, who’s run printer-producing robots for IBM and taught mechanical engineering at the University of Virginia, has gone back to elementary school --on a mission she’s calling EaSiEE as Pi.
A spooky participatory stage show playing on the pre-Halloween weekend at Harrisonburg’s Court Square Theater even has its own "app." We meet producers Mike Howdyshell and his younger brother, Chris.