{"id":2091,"date":"2013-10-21T15:27:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T19:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/?p=2091"},"modified":"2017-09-15T16:00:06","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T20:00:06","slug":"nimbios-hosts-shades-girls-in-stem-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/21\/nimbios-hosts-shades-girls-in-stem-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"NIMBioS Hosts SHADES Girls in STEM Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Rosalia,<\/a>

Rosalia, local middle school student, shows off her rubber band car in progress.<\/p><\/div>\n

NIMBioS hosted area middle school girls this month for SHADES<\/a>, an interactive one-day workshop in science and engineering. Girls did many fun and interactive STEM activities including T-shirt chromatography<\/a>, building model sinkholes<\/a>, using Geiger counters, creating genetic code bracelets<\/a>, and making special tapes to measure tree trunk diameter using pi<\/a>. The day culminated with an engineering design competition where the girls built rubber-band cars<\/a>. The day was designed to show off fun and interesting applications of STEM to attract girls to science and engineering careers.<\/p>\n

\"Girls<\/a>

Girls using chromatography to create T-shirt designs<\/p><\/div>\n

SHADES stands for “SHAring ADventures in Engineering and Science.” The annual event is sponsored with the Greater Knoxville Math\/Science Coalition, which includes the American Association of University Women (AAUW<\/a>), American Women in Science (AWIS<\/a>), Society of Women Engineers (SWE<\/a>), American Nuclear Society (ANS<\/a>), Tennessee Society of Professional Engineers (TSPE<\/a>), and US Women in Nuclear (WIN<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NIMBioS hosted area middle school girls this month for SHADES, an interactive one-day workshop in science and engineering. Girls did many fun and interactive STEM activities including T-shirt chromatography, building model sinkholes, using Geiger counters, creating genetic code bracelets, and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,15,76,83,63,14],"tags":[40,49,16,102,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2091"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3034,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions\/3034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}