{"id":9932,"date":"2011-05-16T10:43:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T15:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=9932"},"modified":"2011-05-17T10:08:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T15:08:25","slug":"female-students-gather-for-scientific-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/05\/female-students-gather-for-scientific-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Female students gather for scientific discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9931\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9931\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9931 \" title=\"Students pose with a periodic table of the elements display at Scientifically Yours\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/scientificallyyours20112.jpg\" alt=\"Students pose with a periodic table of the elements made out of graham crackers at Scientifically Yours this month.\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9931\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students pose with a periodic table of the elements made out of graham crackers at Scientifically Yours this month.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sixty scientifically minded girls visited Brock this month as part of an annual event to encourage them to enter scientific fields.<\/p>\n<p>Grade 11 students from as far as Belleville and the Ottawa Valley attended the two-day <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/mathematics-science\/scientificallyyours\" target=\"_blank\">Scientifically Yours<\/a> conference. It was the 21st year for the conference, which promotes scientific professions and gives the students a taste of university life.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9930\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9930\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9930\" title=\"Naomi Nemeth speaks with students during Scientifically Yours\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/scientificallyyours2011-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Naomi Nemeth speaks with students during Scientifically Yours\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9930\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naomi Nemeth speaks with students.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>They participated in a number of hands-on projects, including exploring laser holography, transferring data by light and measuring brain function. There were also activities to celebrate the International Year of Chemistry, including building the periodic table of 112 elements out of graham crackers, chemical crossword puzzles and short chemistry calculations.<\/p>\n<p>The plenary address was given by alumna Naomi Nemeth, a director of MetalCorp with years of experience in investor relations and the mining industry.<\/p>\n<p>During her talk, entitled \u201cYou can have it all\u2026just not at once,\u201d Nemeth told the students that some of the jobs they will have in the future likely don\u2019t even exist today. She cited her own, as an investor relations consultant for junior mining companies, as an example. Nemeth earned a BSc in Geology and Biology from Brock in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>She encouraged the students to network and get involved with professional associations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho you know will get you where you want to go,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The event, held May 5 and 6, culminated with a dinner with students and female mentors who work in scientific professions.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/home.php#!\/home.php?sk=group_97248392180&amp;ap=1\" target=\"_blank\">Scientifically Yours Facebook page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grade 11 students attended the two-day Scientifically Yours conference. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[259],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9932"}],"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=9932"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9934,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9932\/revisions\/9934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}