{"id":8862,"date":"2018-11-19T14:46:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T00:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/?p=8862"},"modified":"2018-11-19T14:49:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T00:49:22","slug":"jcmt-supports-stemfest-2018-for-big-island-girl-scouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/2018\/11\/jcmt-supports-stemfest-2018-for-big-island-girl-scouts\/","title":{"rendered":"JCMT supports STEM Fest 2018 for Big Island Girl Scouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The EAO Outreach Team was thrilled to be invited to help out at the 2018 STEM Fest event held in Waimea at the\u00a0Kahilu Town Hall for Big Island Girl Scouts. The event, attended by 75 girls on November 17th, provided the opportunity to experience hands on activities from a variety of science and engineering fields.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">JCMT staff members Alexis Achohido and Mimi Fuchs worked with Girl Scouts to discover how astronomers know what stars are made of. In particular we highlighted the work of\u00a0 <span class=\"ILfuVd c3biWd\">Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who proposed a theory for the composition of stars in her 1925, her PhD Thesis!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As well as looking at what stars are made of we also looked at what dense interstellar dust clouds are made of and made our very own candy molecules.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/GirlScouts-Waimea-17-Nov-2018-Mimi-e1542674781264.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8864 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/GirlScouts-Waimea-17-Nov-2018-Mimi-e1542674781264.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/GirlScouts-Waimea-17-Nov-2018-Mimi-e1542674781264.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/GirlScouts-Waimea-17-Nov-2018-Mimi-e1542674781264-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/GirlScouts-Waimea-17-Nov-2018-Mimi-e1542674781264-230x150.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/GirlScouts-Waimea-17-Nov-2018-Mimi-e1542674781264-150x98.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/GirlScouts-Waimea-17-Nov-2018-Mimi-e1542674781264-308x201.jpg 308w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EAO Outreach Team was thrilled to be invited to help out at the 2018 STEM Fest event held in Waimea at the\u00a0Kahilu Town Hall for Big Island Girl Scouts. The event, attended by 75 girls on November 17th, provided the opportunity to experience hands on activities from a variety\u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/2018\/11\/jcmt-supports-stemfest-2018-for-big-island-girl-scouts\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8866,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8862\/revisions\/8866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}