{"id":10639,"date":"2018-03-07T12:55:23","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T17:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/volunteers-needed-for-6th-annual-girls-in-stem-at-tec-smart-2\/"},"modified":"2018-03-07T12:55:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T17:55:23","slug":"volunteers-needed-for-6th-annual-girls-in-stem-at-tec-smart-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/volunteers-needed-for-6th-annual-girls-in-stem-at-tec-smart-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers needed for 6th annual Girls In STEM at TEC-SMART"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers are needed to assist with the sixth annual Girls In STEM event on Saturday, March 23 from 8 a.m. to noon at the college&#8217;s TEC-SMART facility in Malta.<\/p>\n<p>The free event, open to girls in fourth through eighth grade, features hands-on workshops designed to illustrate the fun side of science and technology. Workshop sessions will be facilitated by\u00a0leaders and educators in STEM professions.<\/p>\n<p>Girls in\u00a0STEM\u00a0is sponsored by AT&amp;T, Hudson Valley Community College, Saratoga County Prosperity Partnership, the Center for Economic Growth and the many dedicated partners hosting this year&#8217;s workshops.<\/p>\n<p>Workshop topics include\u00a0Product Design: Sketching and Testing Ideas (hosted by Kennason), Kid Wind (GE), Design Your Dream House (CS Arch), Solar Field (National Grid),\u00a0\u00a0Super Sleuths with SciGirls (WMHT Public Media), Frozen (Ballston Spa Schools&#8217; Early College High School Program), Spring Into STEM (Ballston Spa Schools&#8217; ECHS), Spectacular Spectroscopy (MiSci), Let\u2019s Create Fun Interactive Stories and Games! (SUNY Empire State College and SIM Albany), What Spectra Tell Us About the Stars! (Capital Region BOCES).<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about volunteer opportunities, please contact Penny Hill, associate dean at TEC-SMART, at <a href=\"mailto:p.hill@hvcc.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">p.hill@hvcc.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Wed, 07 Mar 2018 12:55:23 +0000 by\u00a0p.hill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Volunteers are needed to assist with the sixth annual Girls In STEM event on Saturday, March 23 from 8&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}