{"id":58886,"date":"2014-11-12T09:48:43","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T15:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=58886"},"modified":"2014-11-12T09:54:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T15:54:07","slug":"stem-workforce-events-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=58886","title":{"rendered":"STEM workforce events planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/STEMlogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-58887\" alt=\"STEMlogo\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/STEMlogo.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" \/><\/a>Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown will host the AAUW Tech Savvy Event on January 5th, 2015. The day-camp is held for girls in grades 7-8 to encourage and develop career interests in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in an effort to overcome a history of limited participation by women in these career fields.<\/p>\n<p>The event will be held at the University of Jamestown.<\/p>\n<p>Tech Savvy will impact approximately 220 girls through hands-on STEM workshops.<\/p>\n<p>STEM, Tech Savvy also includes an important program for parents, with the component encouraging families to reinforce the girls&#8217; interest in STEM.<\/p>\n<p>Also on January 5, 2015, young men in grades 7 and 8, may attend a STEMtastic event at Jamestown Middle School in partnership with the Great Plains STEM<\/p>\n<p>Education Center.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday\u2019s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, the JSDC\u2019s Vice President of Economic Development, Holly Milller added that another workforce project in cooperation with NDSU involves a four week teacher internship with businesses.<\/p>\n<p>She said two business in Jamestown are being sought.<\/p>\n<p>Contact her at the JSDC office at 252-6861 for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown will host the AAUW Tech Savvy Event on January 5th, 2015. The day-camp is held for girls in grades 7-8 to encourage and develop career interests in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in an effort to overcome a history of limited participation by women in these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58886"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58893,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58886\/revisions\/58893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}