{"id":1267,"date":"2016-09-13T17:34:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T17:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2016-09-13T17:46:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T17:46:44","slug":"inspiring-next-generation-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/2016\/09\/13\/inspiring-next-generation-engineers\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiring the next generation of engineering students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dr. Cynthia Leonard, Benton Day Camp Director<\/p>\n<p>Eight engineering graduate students volunteered time this summer to work with 160 Girl Scouts\u00a0ranging from grades 1-12 at Benton Day Camp.<\/p>\n<p>The students did an incredible job conducting a\u00a0water siphoning activity, and\u00a0were engaging, funny, patient, and very prepared, adapting the concepts and teaching strategies to the appropriate age level. They blended theory with\u00a0hands-on activity, and took an excellent problem-solving approach with the girls.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to Aaron Fillo (student lead), Valerie Byxbe, Anthony Harteloo, Matthew Hoeper, Tara Larson, Taylor Rawlings, Tassilo Selover-Stephan, and Kyle Zada for impacting these girls and their families, and investing in the next generation. The presence of these engineering students at our camp gets the girls excited and interested in engineering and related areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dr. Cynthia Leonard, Benton Day Camp Director Eight engineering graduate students volunteered time this summer to work with 160 Girl Scouts\u00a0ranging from grades 1-12 at Benton Day Camp. The students did an incredible job conducting a\u00a0water siphoning activity, and\u00a0were engaging, funny, patient, and very prepared, adapting the concepts and teaching strategies to the appropriate&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/2016\/09\/13\/inspiring-next-generation-engineers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4803,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1549,482,101480,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-making-a-difference","category-outreach","category-students-3","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1271,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions\/1271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}