“Wiz Kid” host Angelica Peterson, right, and Kevin Samuelson film a video at the CSU Spur campus in Denver on Friday, April 19, 2024. CSU’s Spur is launching “Wiz Kid,” a new children’s science education program, on YouTube. The hope is to provide accessible science education to young folks.
Last week, Peterson skipped through the Spur buildings while filming social media content for Earth Day, swinging around a banana peel as she talked about composting.The age feels prescient for Peterson, who wrote in a fourth-grade project that she wanted to be an actress and a scientist. To get in the Wiz Kid headspace, Peterson watches Nye or blasts “Silly Songs with Larry,” a segment of the kids’ show “Veggie Tales” that made her laugh growing up.
The university is working to align show topics with Colorado’s educational curriculum and developing worksheets and materials that teachers can pass out to students for corresponding lessons, Kennedy said.