{"id":49822,"date":"2018-05-10T03:32:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T07:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=49822"},"modified":"2018-05-09T13:42:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T17:42:53","slug":"girls-in-science-day-at-ut-may-10-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/05_10_2018\/girls-in-science-day-at-ut-may-10-2","title":{"rendered":"Girls in science day at UT May 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 160 sophomore high school girls will visit The University of Toledo Thursday, May 10, when prominent female scientists and engineers across the region will introduce them to the exciting world of science and technology careers through hands-on experiments and demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>The ninth annual Women in STEMM Day of Meetings, which goes by the acronym WISDOM, will take place from 8 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. on UT\u2019s Main Campus and Health Science Campus.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_49823\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?attachment_id=49823\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-49823\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49823\" src=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/girls-in-science-day-2017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49823\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/girls-in-science-day-2017.jpg 540w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/girls-in-science-day-2017-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-49823\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Area students tested their handmade solar cells constructed with glass, blackberries and graphite during last year&#8217;s Women in STEMM Day of Meetings, which goes by the acronym WISDOM.<\/p><\/div>UT faculty and industrial professionals will help inspire a passion for science careers by exploring the tools of the trade. <\/p>\n<p>The girls will carry out investigations in a number of areas, including physics and astronomy, chemistry, biology, psychology, engineering, pharmacy, and medicine. <\/p>\n<p>Activities for students will include building solar cells, swabbing their cheeks for a DNA sample, aseembling a motor, generating electricity on a bike, making biodiesel fuel, creating lip balm, and touring the anatomy museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Area high school sophomores will visit campus Thursday, May 10, for Women in STEMM Day of Meetings, which goes by the acronym WISDOM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":812,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,5,61,38,39,42,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/812"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49822"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49826,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49822\/revisions\/49826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}