{"id":5231,"date":"2018-03-16T15:15:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T22:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/?p=5231"},"modified":"2018-03-16T15:17:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T22:17:08","slug":"inspiring-kids-doing-cool-stuff-at-u-of-u-science-engineering-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/16\/inspiring-kids-doing-cool-stuff-at-u-of-u-science-engineering-fair","title":{"rendered":"Inspiring Kids Doing Cool Stuff at U of U Science & Engineering Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"For over a decade, XMission has proudly supported the University of Utah Science & Engineering Fair<\/a> (formerly known as Salt Lake Valley Science & Engineering Fair). This year, some superstar kids from grades 5-12 will present their projects before the judges and compete for trophies, cash prizes, internships, college scholarships and other non-monetary recognition for their outstanding work. <\/p>\n

Our fearless leader, Pete Ashdown will judge USEF again this year. One talented, young scientist will receive the XMission Technology Award for using the Internet in a creative way for research or as part of a presentation. We always give the winner a Newton\u2019s Cradle as well, because what budding scientist doesn\u2019t need one of those on his or her desk?<\/p>\n

This year, USEF will take place at Rice-Eccles Stadium<\/a> on March 20-23. <\/p>\n

According to USEF, \u201cParticipation in science fair stimulates student’s interest in science and technology while simultaneously promoting the development of communication, decision making, evaluation of alternative solutions and critical thinking.\u201d <\/p>\n

Six projects from the fair will move on to the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF)<\/a>, the world\u2019s largest pre-college science fair. Each May, more than 1400 students from over 40 countries gather to compete for $3 million in internships, grants, science equipment, and prizes, including the grand prize\u2014a $50,000 college scholarship.<\/p>\n

Check out the USEF website<\/a> and support them. XMission looks forward to eventually hiring some of these smarties!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For over a decade, XMission has proudly supported the University of Utah Science & Engineering Fair (formerly known as Salt Lake Valley Science & Engineering Fair). This year, some superstar kids from grades 5-12 will present their projects before the judges and compete for trophies, cash prizes, internships, college scholarships and other non-monetary recognition for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[533,123],"tags":[651,650,649,192,644,648,647,646,645],"class_list":["post-5231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-community","category-stuff-we-like","tag-engineering-fair","tag-salt-lake-science-fair","tag-salt-lake-valley-science-engineering-fair","tag-science","tag-science-fair","tag-slvsef","tag-university-of-utah-science-and-engineering-fair","tag-university-of-utah-science-fair","tag-utah-science-fair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5231"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5246,"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5231\/revisions\/5246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}