The Week of April 21st | Weekly News Recap

This week I discuss various news topics, reported on by our reporters. Those stories being: Berea College Students Excel in ECON Awards, Upcoming Spring Events, Vinylthon Recap and more. If you wish to hear the entirety of these stories please watch this week's broadcast. Thank you.

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Hello, my name is Aiden, and welcome to this week's weekly news recap, including the following stories. Berea College students excel in econ awards, upcoming spring events, vinyl thon recap, and more. Don't forget to watch this week's broadcast to hear the entirety of the stories mentioned above. Starting off with Jessica Powell, as she explores Berea College's students win at the 2026 Econ Games, where our students place first over at least 30 different teams from various national institutions. President Nixon released an announcement via a campus-wide email discussing the students' win. In that email, it discusses some of the competitions that took place. During a high-pressure 24-hour competition, students had to translate complex data into real-world solutions. Here we have Jessica interviewing one of those students.

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We worked with data from EQBase, which is the official source for thoroughbred horse racing statistical data. And our major problem to solve was to find innovative ways to use that data to make industry more accessible for newer generation of fans. A major part of our strategy involved the model performance comparison, where we found out that GPS metrics significantly outperformed the traditional data, and that was the key to us to use that GPS metrics to create our user interface, which we call the QI metrics, which made the horse racing industry way more accessible to newer generation of fans. It included stable match, which is think of it as Tinder for horses. You can see horse profiles, swipe to the right or to the left. You can see the whole data on those horses. We had horse LLM, which is the chatbot powered by more than 12,000 horse profiles, and you can ask it anything from what race is today in Kentucky or specific horse profile. And the other feature was EQA bets, which is the predictive model where you can place your bets using haysticks, not the real money, and see the GPS outcomes and just climb the litterboard with your friends. You can include your friends in that and just play with betting and see how it works. What really set us apart was that we created the whole demo for our user interface model and the features that we created for that user interface were so creative. Also combined with the presentation style that we developed that was different from other teams. I think what really was important in our team is that the synergy was so smooth and everybody contributed that it allowed us to move so much faster. It definitely told me how to handle data more effectively. It told me how to clean data, analyze data, see the different patterns, but most importantly, it told me how to use that data to create real-world solutions.

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This bringing this segment to a close. Next up, as spring begins and the semester comes to an end, we have Izzy Spins here to share various events popping up to close out the year.

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That same day, numerous residence halls are throwing an island party on the James Seabury Kettering Lawn from 4 to 9 p.m. Join them for the celebration of warm weather with water slides, a cookout, and outdoor games. On Friday from 6 30 to 9 p.m. in Phillips Stokes is the Cosmo Show for 2026, a vibrant celebration of global culture. This event, held by the Cosmopolitan Club, showcases the diversity, creativity, and talents of students and the surrounding community with dance performances, fashion walks, musical showcases, and more. Additionally, on Saturday, April 25th, the Forestry Outreach Center is hosting their forest meditations from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. They say this is an opportunity to connect with yourself, each other, and the earth. Additionally, on Saturday is the bike and hike with Go Kentucky from 9 30 a.m. to 2 15, held by Outdoor Adventures. Outdoor Adventures is also holding an opportunity for students to go caving on Sunday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Additionally, that day, they're holding canoeing on Laurel Lake from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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That bringing this segment to a close. But as always, some of these events you must reserve your spot. So do so accordingly. Last up, we have Quinn discussing how vinyl thaw went for those of us who participated. Where Quinn highlights various artists we played just last weekend, followed by various clips of those of us who participated. That video is up on this week's broadcast if you wish to view it. It also shows some of the piles upon piles of records we had in the studio. Thank you for listening and check back in next week for more news. Also, if you haven't yet given our website a look, please do so at www.bcnnewsandradio.com for more information regarding broadcast and upcoming events being held in our space as the year comes to a close. Goodbye.