{"id":203568,"date":"2012-02-08T19:38:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T19:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=10542"},"modified":"2012-02-08T19:38:52","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T19:38:52","slug":"engineering-ambassadors-reach-out-to-students-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2012\/02\/engineering-ambassadors-reach-out-to-students-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering Ambassadors Reach Out to Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/engr-amb-steph-santos.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10595 alignleft img-responsive lazyload\" title=\"engr-amb--steph-santos\" data-src=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/engr-amb-steph-santos.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"295\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 221px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 221\/295;\" \/><\/a>Over 100 children from the Windham School District in Connecticut, among the most underserved communities in the state, visited UConn Saturday, February 4th for a singular &#8220;Explore Science and Engineering Day&#8221; that immersed them in a range of fun learning activities aimed at expanding their awareness of STEM subjects.\u00a0 Throughout the day, they were mentored by undergraduate Engineering Ambassadors and members of the Nutmeg Big Brothers Big Sisters organization.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story and view photos <a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/blog\/2012\/02\/engineering-ambassadors-reach-out-to-students\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+uconn-today+%28UConn+Today%29\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 100 children from the Windham School District in Connecticut, among the most underserved communities in the state, visited UConn Saturday, February 4th for a singular &#8220;Explore Science and Engineering Day&#8221; that immersed them in a range of fun learning activities aimed at expanding their awareness of STEM subjects.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-203568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 02:27:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203568"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=203568"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=203568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}