{"id":38523,"date":"2016-04-12T10:17:33","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T14:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=38523"},"modified":"2016-04-12T10:17:33","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T14:17:33","slug":"scientific-curiosity-nurtured-during-regional-science-and-engineering-fair-at-brock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/04\/scientific-curiosity-nurtured-during-regional-science-and-engineering-fair-at-brock\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientific curiosity nurtured during regional science and engineering fair at Brock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University welcomed over 200 budding scientists this past weekend as part of the 54<sup>th<\/sup> annual Niagara Regional Science and Engineering Fair (NRSEF).<\/p>\n<p>The two-day fair saw\u00a0students from\u00a0Grades 5 through 12 from across the Niagara Region showcase their knowledge and talent in areas spanning\u00a0the entire spectrum of Mathematics and\u00a0Science.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis event is all about the promotion of science. Yes it\u2019s a competition, but it\u2019s an experience,\u201d says Ivana Komljenovic Metcalf, Vice-Chair of NRSEF. \u201cIt\u2019s an opportunity for students to see what can be done in the world\u00a0. . .\u00a0from others their own age.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Metcalf says she appreciates the continued support of the Niagara community for this annual fair, as well as the team of volunteers who\u00a0assist with the event.<\/p>\n<p>Ejaz Ahmed, Dean of the Faculty of Math &amp; Science, made opening ceremony announcements in which he congratulated participants on their hard work and also thanked members of the Brock community for their efforts to nurture scientific curiosity in Niagara\u2019s youth.<\/p>\n<p>The awards for this year\u2019s fair will be handed out on Wednesday, April 13, at St. Catharines Collegiate from 7-9 p.m. Along with the several age category and special awards to be distributed, an announcement will be made of the students who have qualified for Team Niagara. Those students will represent the Niagara Region at the Canada-wide event held from May 15-20\u00a0in Montreal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University welcomed over 200 budding scientists this past weekend as part of the 54th annual Niagara Regional Science and Engineering Fair (NRSEF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":38524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41,1],"tags":[3106,3550,4017],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38523"}],"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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38525,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38523\/revisions\/38525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}