{"id":62061,"date":"2015-01-05T07:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=62061"},"modified":"2015-01-06T07:48:08","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T13:48:08","slug":"techsavvy-stemtastic-jmst-mon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=62061","title":{"rendered":"TechSavvy-STEMtastic Jmst Mon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Techsavvy1\"<\/a>Jamestown (CSi) TechSavvy – STEMtastic! Sponsored by the American Association of University Women (AAUW) in affiliation with Jamestown Middle School, \u00a0is at the University of Jamestown on Monday, January 5, 2015.<\/p>\n

from 8:30 a.m.\u20142:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

Jamestown 7th & 8th grade girls will attend along with girls from area schools.<\/p>\n

About 175 girls are expected to attend. There will also be parents and teachers attending the event.<\/p>\n

\"stemtastic\"<\/a>STEMtastic! Is for the Jamestown 7th & 8th grade boys on Monday led by Dr. David DeMuth, Executive Director of the Great Plains STEM Education Center at VCSU.<\/p>\n

STEM Hands-On Activities<\/p>\n

KidsWinds Design Challenge<\/p>\n

Parachute Design<\/p>\n

Candy Land<\/p>\n

Roller Coaster Physics<\/p>\n

ChemDetectives<\/p>\n

Exploring the Universe<\/p>\n

Arduino\/Scratch Challenge<\/p>\n

Plus More<\/p>\n

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Tech Savvy is a daylong science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) career conference designed to attract girls in sixth through ninth grade to these fields and to inform families about STEM education and careers. The Jamestown ND Branch of AAUW was selected as one of 15 sites across the country to hold a TechSavvy event in 2015. An AAUW grant provides partial funding.<\/p>\n

SCHEDULE<\/p>\n

Student Program Time Activity Location<\/p>\n

8:30\u2013 8:50 a.m. Check-in Reiland Lobby<\/p>\n

8:50\u20139:00 a.m. Welcome \u2013 Holly Miller & Joan Enderle Reiland Auditorium<\/p>\n

9:10\u201310:00 a.m. Tech Savvy Workshop I See Schedule<\/p>\n

10:10\u2013 11:00 a.m. Tech Savvy Workshop II See Schedule<\/p>\n

11:10 \u2013 Noon Tech Savvy Workshop III See Schedule<\/p>\n

Noon\u2013 12:30 p.m. Lunch Nafus Student Center, Knight Hall<\/p>\n

12:40 \u20131:00 p.m. College Savvy Skills Reiland Auditorium<\/p>\n

1:00\u20131:45 p.m. Savvy Skills Workshop \u2013 Power of ME Reiland Auditorium<\/p>\n

1:45 \u20132:15 p.m. Keynote Speaker – Dr. Heidi Manning Reiland Auditorium<\/p>\n

2:15\u20132:30 p.m. Closing Session \u2013 Holly Miller & Joan Enderle Reiland Auditorium<\/p>\n

The day will start out with a conversation with Dr. Heidi Manning, pro-fessor from Concordia in Minnesota, who will describe her role with NASA on the exploration of Mars. Then in groups of 15, students will be engaging in hands-on activities in 50 minute sessions, twice, breaking for lunch, then completing another 50 minute STEM session.<\/p>\n

The day will be capped with a perspective from Carrie Leopold from the InspireLab on how boys can contribute and support to the success of classmates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jamestown (CSi) TechSavvy – STEMtastic! Sponsored by the American Association of University Women (AAUW) in affiliation with Jamestown Middle School, \u00a0is at the University of Jamestown on Monday, January 5, 2015. from 8:30 a.m.\u20142:30 p.m. Jamestown 7th & 8th grade girls will attend along with girls from area schools. About […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":62087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62061","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=62061"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62344,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62061\/revisions\/62344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}