{"id":50023,"date":"2018-03-20T07:17:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T11:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=50023"},"modified":"2018-03-20T20:01:17","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T00:01:17","slug":"local-science-fair-brings-top-young-students-to-brock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/03\/local-science-fair-brings-top-young-students-to-brock\/","title":{"rendered":"Local science fair brings top young students to Brock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of Niagara\u2019s top young scientists will be putting their work on display at Brock University this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>More than 175 students from across Niagara will be displaying their diverse research projects as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarasciencefair.org\/wp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">56th annual Niagara Regional Science and Engineering Fair<\/a>, a non-profit, charitable organization, which is sponsored by local businesses and dedicated to the encouragement of science in students within the Niagara region.<\/p>\n<p>The two-day event in Brock\u2019s Pond Inlet allows students in grades 5 through 12 to present their projects in English or French on a wide variety of topics, including sleep methods for kids with anxiety, innovating healthcare technology through mobile applications and examining whether 3D bioprinting can replace organ transplants.<\/p>\n<p>Judging by local scientists, engineers and business professionals will take place on Saturday, March 24 from 8:30 a.m. until 4 p.m., while members of the community are invited to participate in the Fair\u2019s Community Open house, running from 1 to 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 25.<\/p>\n<p>The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony at St. Catharines Collegiate on Wednesday, March 28 from 7 to 9 p.m. The top-awarded students will go on to compete at the Canada-Wide Science Fair in Ottawa May 12 to 19.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the Niagara Regional Science and Engineering Fair, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarasciencefair.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">niagarasciencefair.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of Niagara\u2019s top young scientists will be putting their work on display at Brock University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[4402,5072],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50023"}],"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=50023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50024,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50023\/revisions\/50024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}