{"id":654845,"date":"2013-04-26T17:50:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T21:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=b395d6ce61970180289112698be1ce67"},"modified":"2013-04-26T17:50:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T21:50:43","slug":"weekly-wrap-up-what-you-do-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/654845","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Wrap Up: &#8220;What You Do Matters&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ByTm-P5t7pw&amp;feature=player_embedded\">Watch the West Wing Week here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>White House Science Fair: On Tuesday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/04\/22\/young-scientists-and-innovators-amaze-president-obama-white-house-science-fair\">President Obama welcomed our country&rsquo;s youngest scientists and innovators for the 3rd Annual White House Science Fair<\/a>. More than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/microsites\/ostp\/2013_scifair_students.pdf\">100 students from more than 40 states<\/a> joined the President for the all-day celebration. The President toured the fair and even hopped on a bicycle-powered, emergency water-sanitation station developed by high-school students Payton Karr and Kiona Elliott of Oakland Park, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/remarks-president-education-innovate-campaign\">launched the White House Science Fair in 2009<\/a> as way to help encourage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/issues\/education\/k-12\/educate-innovate\">science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education<\/a>. &nbsp;In December of 2012 the Administration announced a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2012\/12\/18\/one-decade-one-million-more-stem-graduates\">goal of one million new STEM graduates in the next decade<\/a>, and the President&rsquo;s plan works for educational opportunities and support for women and underrepresented minorities.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GqSL4ciJqvg\">Watch Bill Nye the Science Guy and LeVar Burton interview some of the young inventors<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/04\/20\/watch-live-2013-white-house-science-fair\">See all the videos from the 2013 White House Science Fair<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/microsites\/ostp\/2013_scifair_students.pdf\">Check out the full list of students who participated and find out more about their inventions<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OusxT12umwc\">Girls in STEM: A New Generation in Science<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Reimvk8D2Ho\">Watch President Obama fire a marshmallow cannon at the 2012 White House Science Fair<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/04\/26\/weekly-wrap-what-you-do-matters\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch the West Wing Week here. White House Science Fair: On Tuesday, President Obama welcomed our country&rsquo;s youngest scientists and innovators for the 3rd Annual White House Science Fair. More than 100 students from more than 40 states joined the President for the all-day celebration. The President toured the fair and even hopped on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7329,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654845","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\/7329"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}