BISMARCK — Hess Corporation kicked off the 2024 Hess Toy Truck and STEM curriculum donation to schools across North Dakota, starting with a demonstration involving third and fourth grade students at Roosevelt Elementary School in Bismarck.

Forty students along with teachers, staff, Department of Public Instruction and Hess personnel were on hand to try out the STEM education kits and the 60th anniversary fire truck with car and motorcycle.

This is the sixth straight year that Hess will donate trucks to every elementary school in North Dakota, with nearly 50,000 trucks donated since the education initiative began. Hess has once again partnered with the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction to find new opportunities for interactive teaching and learning.

The STEM curriculum guide designed by Baylor College of Medicine’s Center for Educational Outreach uses the 2024 fire truck combined with eight lessons designed to ‘”gnite learning” with a focus on the science and math of firefighting and fire trucks. Each year the STEM curriculum guide is custom designed to match the features of the newest Hess Toy Truck, creating a learning tool that introduces elementary age students to different STEM concepts in a fun and engaging way.

Hess will ship the toy trucks to each elementary school in North Dakota, and the STEM curriculum will be available for

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or will be distributed electronically. Teachers will be able to use the materials as part of their curriculum going forward. The Hess Toy Truck has been a holiday tradition since 1964 and is one of the longest running toy brands in the U.S.

BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) – The North Dakota State Capitol lit up windows on the building to display “2025″ for the new year.

The number 2025 was displayed on all sides of the Capitol.

According to the Office of Management and Budget, the Capitol has been doing light displays since Dec. 19, 1934.

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Flathead High School alum, former Kalispell resident and retired NFL quarterback Brock Osweiler will be part of the ESPN broadcast team for the upcoming Jan. 6 FCS National Championship game in Frisco, Texas, between Montana State University and North Dakota State University.

Osweiler, who was hired by ESPN in 2022 as an analyst for college football, has been busy of late as college football’s bowl season reaches its peak, with nearly 30 bowl games, plus additional college football playoff games having already taken place between Dec. 14 and Dec. 30. News of Osweiler’s involvement in calling the FCS National Championship began circulating Monday.

This will be the second Bobcats game Osweiler has been in the booth for since Dec. 21, when he and play-by-play broadcaster Dave Fleming and sideline reporter Stormy Buonantony covered the FCS semifinal between MSU and University of South Dakota on ABC. That game, a 31-17 win for MSU, featured a dominant performance by Butte High grad and Bobcats’ starting quarterback Tommy Mellott, who threw for 134 yards and a touchdown while also rushing for 125 yards and two touchdowns. Montana State was the top-seeded team in the FCS playoffs and is undefeated on the season. They will face a South Dakota State Bison team that is 13-2 and entered the playoffs as the No. 2 seed. The two losses on the season for the Bison have come at the hands of University of Colorado and University of South Dakota.

Last week, Osweiler reportedly became the first person in the TV broadcast booth for the Las Vegas Bowl between USC and Texas A&M who had previously played in the Las Vegas Bowl. That was back in 2011 when the Arizona State Sun Devils faced Boise State in a 56-24 loss during which Osweiler went 30 of 47 passing for 395 yards and two touchdowns.

A resident of Scottsdale, Ariz., Osweiler is also part of the TV broadcast team as an analyst for the Dec. 31 ReliaQuest Bowl between No. 11 Alabama and Michigan on ESPN.

Osweiler won’t be the only former pro quarterback from Montana covering the FCS championship game. Ryan Leaf, who grew up in Great Falls, and went on to play for Washington State before spending four seasons in the NFL, will be helping to call the game for the radio broadcasting company Westwood One Sports.

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