{"id":1043,"date":"2019-12-05T02:52:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T18:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seedssg.com\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2019-12-05T02:54:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T18:54:43","slug":"stem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/2019\/12\/stem\/","title":{"rendered":"STEM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6203-Small.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1043]\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6203-Small.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1047\" data-link=\"http:\/\/seedssg.com\/2019\/12\/stem\/img_6203-small\/\" class=\"wp-image-1047\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6203-Small.jpg 640w, https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6203-Small-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6203-Small-250x188.jpg 250w, https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6203-Small-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_1927-Small.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1043]\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_1927-Small.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1046\" data-link=\"http:\/\/seedssg.com\/2019\/12\/stem\/img_1927-small\/\" class=\"wp-image-1046\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_1927-Small.jpg 640w, https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_1927-Small-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_1927-Small-250x188.jpg 250w, https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_1927-Small-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6150-Small.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1043]\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6150-Small.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1045\" data-link=\"http:\/\/seedssg.com\/2019\/12\/stem\/img_6150-small\/\" class=\"wp-image-1045\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6150-Small.jpg 640w, https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6150-Small-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6150-Small-250x188.jpg 250w, https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6150-Small-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_1937-Small.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1043]\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_1937-Small.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1044\" data-link=\"http:\/\/seedssg.com\/2019\/12\/stem\/img_1937-small\/\" class=\"wp-image-1044\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_1937-Small.jpg 640w, https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_1937-Small-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_1937-Small-250x188.jpg 250w, https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_1937-Small-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Imagine that a recent storm destroyed the only\nbridge connecting your village to the outside world.&nbsp;&nbsp; The area is so remote that it will take days\nfor outside help to arrive, and on top of that, only a few building materials\nare available.&nbsp; You are given one day and\na handful of basic materials.&nbsp; Can you\ndesign and build a bridge to help reconnect your village to the rest of the\nworld? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was a recent design challenge given to a\ngroup of students at a STEM day camp.&nbsp;\nAfter exploring physics principles through hands-on activities, the\nstudents were given small wooden skewers, a hot glue gun, paper, and\npencil.&nbsp; Each team designed, tested, and\nimproved a model bridge until it was strong enough to meet the challenge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SEEDS members in Thailand recently hosted several science, technology,\nengineering and math (STEM) day camps like this one in low-income and\nunderprivileged segments of the city as a means to inspire youth from these\nbackgrounds toward STEM career opportunities.&nbsp;&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Students learned by exploring, investigating, and asking questions\nrelated to an interesting topic or real-world problem.&nbsp;&nbsp; Next they worked in teams to develop\nsomething, test it, improve it, and present it to an audience.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The participants of the club gained confidence, teamwork skills, and\nopportunities they would not have had otherwise.&nbsp;&nbsp; It also increased\ntheir motivation to study the STEM subjects in school with more intentionality\nand enthusiasm. &nbsp;These outcomes will in\nturn contribute toward future economic benefits for them and their families, in\nline with SEEDS objectives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine that a recent storm destroyed the only bridge connecting your village to the outside world.   The area is so remote that it will take days for outside help to arrive, and on top of that, only a few building materials are available.  You are given one day and a handful of basic materials.  Can you design and build a bridge to help reconnect your village to the rest of the world? <\/br><\/br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seeds-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1053,"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions\/1053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}