{"id":203788,"date":"2016-02-24T16:28:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T16:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=21915"},"modified":"2024-11-27T12:15:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T17:15:57","slug":"petit-family-foundation-supports-stem-conference-for-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2016\/02\/petit-family-foundation-supports-stem-conference-for-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Video of the Petit Family Foundation Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Petit Family Foundation\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ykGXmvo8k7U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petitfamilyfoundation.org\/\">The Petit Family Foundation<\/a> \u2013 dedicated to promoting STEM careers for young women \u2013 is helping eighth-grade girls learn from role models \u2013 top female UConn Engineering students and practicing engineers.<\/p>\n<p>Its $11,000 gift brings together girls with an interest in science, technology, engineering and math (the STEM fields) with women who can help them accomplish their goals. In regular one-day conferences the eighth-graders work side-by-side with female undergraduate engineering students \u2013 who had the same questions just a few years ago \u2013 and accomplished female engineers. The program is called Multiply Your Options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Petit Family Foundation generously supported a UConn program that allows middle school girls to interact with undergraduate women and young professionals in STEM careers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":184792,"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":[2110],"class_list":["post-203788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 08:06:39","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\/203788","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=203788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222008,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203788\/revisions\/222008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/184792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203788"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=203788"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=203788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}