{"id":232555,"date":"2015-08-18T19:46:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123456233"},"modified":"2015-08-18T19:46:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T23:46:00","slug":"gearing-up-for-stem-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=232555","title":{"rendered":"Gearing up for STEM Rocks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123456233\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2015\/08\/150817-F-NG695-001.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Schriever kids can be rock stars this month; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics rock stars that is.<\/p>\n<p>STEM Rocks!, a festival that celebrates and increases interest in STEM fields, will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 29, at the Peterson Air and Space Museum.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees will be able to participate in various activities related to the technical fields of STEM while having fun in a family-friendly environment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Essentially, STEM programs are important for our children and the younger generation,&#8221; said Capt. Leilani Distaso, National Security Space Institute Space 200 assistant course director and military lead for the event. &#8220;This event is meant to reinforce interest in STEM related fields.&#8221;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123456233\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}