{"id":37871,"date":"2016-03-02T10:08:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T14:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=37871"},"modified":"2016-03-02T10:08:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T14:08:36","slug":"steam-meets-social-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/03\/steam-meets-social-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"STEAM meets social innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Feel passionate about a social issue?\u00a0Interested in <b>S<\/b>cience, <b>T<\/b>echnology, Engineering, <b>A<\/b>rt or <b>M<\/b>ath? Introduce your STEAM skills to the social issues you care about and explore how they work together.<span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">With more access to information, technology and resources, we have the ability to team up and find a solution to pressing social issues. Using STEAM skills help create a better world through innovation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On Saturday, March 5, from 8 a.m. \u2013 8 p.m. students aged 12 and up will have the opportunity to engage with industry professionals, young entrepreneurs and community mentors to collaborate about how to use STEAM skills to engage in social topics that matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The event will take place at the ihub at the DSBN Academy and include several guest speakers, including Kyle Rose, president of BUSU at Brock University.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">For more information and full schedule, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/6social.org\/niagara\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s2\">http:\/\/6social.org\/niagara<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feel passionate about a social issue? Interested in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art or Math? Introduce your STEAM skills to the social issues you care about and explore how they work together. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,40],"tags":[3875,2961,1958,353,3667,838],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37872,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37871\/revisions\/37872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}