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ABC Listen. Hello there my friends, my name is Ruby and you are listening to News Time.
Hello Ruby. Hello. Hey Ruby.
Pop on your protective gear today because our episode is starting down at the race track with a Brisbane kid and her need for speed.
After that, we'll learn about a new app that's helping save an Indigenous language.
Then we'll grab a fossil brush and inspect a dino -rific discovery.
We'll meet some top blokes teaching top ideas and then we'll hear about an unlikely hero for our...
Wow, the week! That's the one!
Here we go. Door number 5.
Formula 1 or F1 Racing is one of the most well known car racing competitions in the world.
Drivers maneuver speedy vehicles around tight turns and along tricky tracks and they race to cross the finish line first.
It's very speedy. The car goes vroom vroom.
My mum really likes it.
And she often falls asleep to the race.
Well just like your mum and thousands of other people around the world, 12 year old Brisbane kid Lana loves Formula 1 racing.
No girl or woman has ever won an F1 Championship and Lana wants to be the first.
Amazing. I think she should accomplish it.
She spends her weekends racing small cars.
Not powerful cars just yet.
She zooms around tracks and makes sure to hit her brakes just at the right time.
She keeps an eye on the track and on the other competitors zooming around her.
Lana says there aren't a lot of girls who do the sport.
Some people have even said that racing is just for boys.
Lana says she doesn't care what they think.
She just wants to be the best.
People say men have an advantage against women, but I think that's like false.
She should practise to get faster, become as confident with herself as possible.
Recently Lana got one step closer to achieving her dream.
She was chosen to participate in a driver development program called More Than Equal.
The More Than Equal program searched the world for girls who were passionate about racing.
Lana is the youngest of the six girls chosen to participate.
She'll be taken around the world to learn the ins and outs of speed racing from some of the very best.
The program's only just started, but already Lana has developed her driving abilities.
Good luck Lana. Good luck Lana.
You can do it Lana.
Story number four. Right now I'm speaking in English to you.
And there are more than a billion people around the world who also speak English.
But there are some other languages spoken in Australia too.
And that includes hundreds of different indigenous languages.
One of those indigenous languages is Nalia, but there aren't a billion Nalia speakers around.
Would you like to have a guess how many there are?
Um, a thousand. I think probably around 150.
Actually there are only three people in the world who speak Nalia.
Because it's Aboriginal and not many people know any Aboriginal languages.
Once that language is gone then it will be extinct.
One of the three Nalia speakers is Kaido Muir and he has helped create an app to help share his language with more people and keep it alive.
The mamajiji app uses a Dreamtime story about a desert insect to teach science.
And the story is told in both English and Nalia.
The app combines indigenous science with western science.
So indigenous and non -indigenous kids can learn more about culture while they're reading the story.
Then you can put it all over the internet.
So then we can have more kids being able to speak the language.
Kids have been loving this app and learning all about country.
And elders have been thrilled with it too.
Elder Daisy Ward says the app will help children navigate both worlds at once.
Cool. Really smart.
This like really happens.
Kaido, the app's creator.
He hopes the app will help pass the language on to the next generation.
And that other people around town who speak indigenous languages might be inspired to make an app of their own.
To use technology to keep their languages alive.
Story number three.
Seven year old Liam, his 10 year old brother Jessen, and their nine year old cousin, Kaidan, were all walking through a park in the state of North Dakota in the United States when Liam spotted a bone poking out of the ground.
A fossil. Fossil. Dinosaur blood.
Grrrrr. Maybe. Liam wasn't quite sure what it was.
So Liam's dad snapped a photo of the find and shared it with their family friend named Tyler, who happened to be the associate curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.
That's a pretty long title, but it basically means he's an expert at studying and identifying bones.
Tyler organised an excavation of the site to find out more and invited the three boys and their sister, Emmeline, to join in as part of the team.
It didn't take long to uncover more bones, including several sharp teeth.
Isn't it every day you see bones sticking out of the ground?
Amazing. As more and more fossils were uncovered, the puzzle pieces began to fall into place.
It turns out the bone was from a Tyrannosaurus rex.
I think the time of the Tyrannosaurus rex is really special.
And it's one of the biggest dinosaurs to ever live in.
Experts think this dino likely weighed about one and a half tonnes.
That's about the same as a car.
They think the T -Rex was about 15 years old when it died, so they're calling it Teen Rex.
Teen Rex? I think it's the funniest thing ever.
I think that's pretty hilarious.
One of Teen Rex's original discoverers, Jesson, wants to be a paleontologist when he grows up.
And his advice to other kids who might be inspired by the discovery is put down your electronics and go out for a hike.
Story number two. I have a tricky question for you.
What does it take to be a good person?
Them being nice to other people.
Kindness and respecting others treating them like they want to be treated.
Oh, those are lovely ideas.
And what about what it takes to be a good boy or a good man?
Do you think that's something different?
Being a man and being kind.
By not bullying others?
Boys are told lots of different things about what it is to be a good man.
Sometimes, things on TV or in movies might give boys the wrong idea about what it takes to be a good person.
They might be told that men have to be strong all the time or that they can never cry.
There's an organisation called Top Bloaks that's challenging that idea.
It wants to see boys across Australia do well and they send youth workers into schools to talk to boys in year five and six.
At school, teachers teach you how to show empathy, inclusion, respect and those things that will help you in life.
Back in the olden days, you got it from your parents.
Nowadays, you say, hey, Google, how am I a good person?
Is it just influence it from other people?
Over the space of eight weeks, the youth workers get to share their own experience of growing up and they talk about the importance of a safe lifestyle and healthy relationships.
They also discuss important issues that boys face as they grow older like bullying and mental health.
The youth workers talk about the kinds of behaviours that are good for young men to have like being able to understand feelings and share feelings with other people and having a good cry when you need to.
Top Bloaks hopes that the boys will grow up to become good role models themselves and that they'll treat each other and everyone with respect.
So you would have more friends?
Top work, top blokes.
And now it's time for our...
Wow, Mike. The story made me go, wow, because that dog is really, really, really, really smart.
This is the story of a man named Brandon Garrett and his quick thinking canine.
Brandon was driving along a remote road in a thick forest in the middle of a place called Oregon in the United States of America.
Oregon has lots of tall mountains and big forests that are great for exploring.
Brandon was camping in the forest with his family and he was taking his four dogs for a drive when his car accidentally crashed into a ravine.
That's a really deep ditch with steep sides and Brandon was too hurt to climb up back to the road.
In a flash, one of Brandon's dogs, a puppy named Blue, ran up the side of the ravine and kept running 6 .4km to the campsite where Brandon was staying.
Blue arrived at the campsite without Brandon and all the other dogs and let the family know that something was wrong.
So, they set out to search for him.
Help, help, help, help, help, help, help.
Come quick, please, help.
Finally, after a very long day, they found Brandon and the other three dogs stuck at the bottom of the ravine.
Local authorities had to hook up a whole web of ropes to help winch Brandon and the pups back to safety.
I think the dog did a good job.
This dog loves him a lot.
I think the dogs are really smart.
Thanks to Blue's mad dash and quick thinking, Brandon and the other three dogs are now safe getting the help they need.
I think that's unbelievably.
Is it a true story?
It is a true story.
Isn't it amazing? What do you think Blue should get for his efforts?
Something that he loves.
A doggy treat. A dog bell prize.
Great work, Blue. What would Brandon have done without you?
And there you have it, my friends.
Yet another countdown in the bag.
Thank you. Thanks Ruby.
You are very welcome.
I'm off to find five fresh stories for next week.
Bye. See you later.
See you later. Or as they say in Swedish, hard to gort.
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