{"id":7355,"date":"2017-02-12T09:40:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T17:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/?p=7355"},"modified":"2017-02-12T09:40:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T17:40:51","slug":"february-23rd-is-introduce-a-girl-to-engineering-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/?p=7355","title":{"rendered":"February 23rd is Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Girl Day is a worldwide campaign to introduce girls to the fascinating world of engineering. Thousands of people&#8211;engineers, teachers and others&#8211;act as Role Models and educate girls about how engineers change our world. This simple act has turned many girls on to engineering &amp; technology careers.\u00a0Started in 2001 as a joint effort between NSPE, IBM, and National Engineers Week Foundation, &#8220;Girl Day&#8221; 2017 marks the 16th year of a special focus . <!--more-->More than just one day, Introduce a Girl to Engineering is a national movement that shows girls how creative and collaborative engineering is and how engineers are changing our world. To learn how you can participate click <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/a\/eng.ucsd.edu\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfM6oAFO17mXoK64Ivl-PU6XOsqjfGNtkiU45iJmiMXkyUb2Q\/viewform\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Introduce-a-Girl-to-Engineering-Day.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7358\" src=\"http:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Introduce-a-Girl-to-Engineering-Day-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Girl Day is a worldwide campaign to introduce girls to the fascinating world of engineering. Thousands of people&#8211;engineers, teachers and others&#8211;act as Role Models and educate girls about how engineers change our world. This simple act has turned many girls on to engineering &amp; technology careers.\u00a0Started in 2001 as a joint effort between NSPE, IBM, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}