{"id":235332,"date":"2015-10-16T22:39:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T02:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123461072"},"modified":"2015-10-16T22:39:20","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T02:39:20","slug":"smc-steps-up-to-support-stem-at-usc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=235332","title":{"rendered":"SMC steps up to support STEM at USC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123461072\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2015\/10\/151010-F-YF873-123.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Twenty members from the Space and Missile Systems Center volunteered their time and support for an outreach program Oct. 10 at the University of Southern California&#8217;s Viterbi School of Engineering. The &#8220;Lasers 4 Ladies&#8221; event focused on demonstrating optics and photonics to over 500 middle and high school female students from across the greater Los Angeles region.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the International Year of Light 2015, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers&#8217; Photonics Society International established the &#8220;Introduce a Girl to Photonics Week&#8221; to support their Women in Photonics initiative.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123461072\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235332","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\/235332","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235332\/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=235332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}