{"id":8489,"date":"2022-06-30T12:06:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T17:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/?p=8489"},"modified":"2022-10-10T12:08:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T17:08:42","slug":"waukegan-summer-camp-for-girls-aims-to-inspire-next-generation-of-innovators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/waukegan-summer-camp-for-girls-aims-to-inspire-next-generation-of-innovators\/","title":{"rendered":"Waukegan summer camp for girls aims to inspire next generation of innovators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 eJGKLK body-paragraph\">WAUKEGAN \u2013 Designed to spark interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, a weeklong camp in Waukegan challenged at least 100 grade school girls to survive on a \u201cnew planet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 eJGKLK body-paragraph\">The campers from schools in Waukegan and North Chicago analyzed the simulated planet\u2019s soil, hunted for existing life, found ways to secure and transport water, mapped the landscape and generated electricity from wind, among other activities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was super cool,\u201d said 13-year-old camper Kamryn Bowers of Waukegan. \u201cI totally think we could go there [to a new planet] sometime in the future. It was cool seeing what scientists would think and how they would achieve experiments and try to get there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/lake-county-journal\/news\/local\/2022\/06\/30\/waukegan-summer-camp-for-girls-aims-to-inspire-next-generation-of-innovators\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the rest of Jami Kunzer&#8217;s article on the Lake County Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WAUKEGAN \u2013 Designed to spark interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, a weeklong camp in Waukegan challenged at least 100 grade school girls to survive on a \u201cnew planet.\u201d The campers from schools in Waukegan and North Chicago analyzed the simulated planet\u2019s soil, hunted for existing life, found ways to secure and transport water, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":8178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[477],"tags":[483,89,161,159],"class_list":["post-8489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ibio-in-the-news","tag-girls","tag-ibio","tag-stem","tag-stemgirls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8490,"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8489\/revisions\/8490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}