{"id":649500,"date":"2013-03-28T11:26:28","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T15:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=ed6523f0592dc259603a0e7d26f6bee4"},"modified":"2013-03-28T11:26:28","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T15:26:28","slug":"students-speak-the-power-of-stem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/649500","title":{"rendered":"Students Speak: The Power of STEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/03\/12\/all-star-stem-students-meet-president\">President Obama met with 40 of the nation&rsquo;s top scientists and engineers<\/a>&mdash;discoverers of new drug candidates to treat common cancers; inventors of tools to help surgeons in the operating room; developers of complex algorithms that can help robots navigate; and more. All of these innovators were finalists in the 2013 Intel Science Talent Search competition, and all of them are still in high school.<\/p>\n<p>These students are living proof that with the right skills, tools, and opportunities, innovation and discovery can happen at any age. That&rsquo;s why the Obama Administration is placing a stronger emphasis than ever on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/02\/20\/equipping-nations-future-innovators\">equipping the next generation of American innovators<\/a> in science, technology, engineering, and math&mdash;the &ldquo;STEM&rdquo; fields.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/03\/28\/students-speak-power-stem\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, President Obama met with 40 of the nation&rsquo;s top scientists and engineers&mdash;discoverers of new drug candidates to treat common cancers; inventors of tools to help surgeons in the operating room; developers of complex algorithms that can help robots navigate; and more. All of these innovators were finalists in the 2013 Intel Science [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7635,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7635"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}