{"id":659,"date":"2011-11-04T13:15:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T18:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/?p=659"},"modified":"2011-11-04T13:15:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T18:15:46","slug":"uwsp-stem-career-day-stirs-excitement-in-health-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/2011\/11\/04\/uwsp-stem-career-day-stirs-excitement-in-health-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"UWSP STEM Career Day stirs excitement in Health Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/11\/STEM201111.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-660\" title=\"STEM201111\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/11\/STEM201111.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Some are fans of &#8220;CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,&#8221; while others have a relative who is a nurse, but no matter how they became interested in the medical field, high school students from throughout Wisconsin had the opportunity to experience a medical investigation lab at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/conted\/ConfWrkShp\/Pages\/STEM\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">UW-Stevens Point STEM\u00a0Career Day<\/a> on Friday, Nov. 4.<\/p>\n<p>School of Health Care Professions professors Jodi Olmsted, Mitch Rasmussen and Marge Tiry assisted as students worked their way through stations to solve a medical mystery using clues given and lab results obtained from hands-on exercises. UWSP students Matthew Eliason and Courtney Spier also assisted at stations during the session. <a href=\"http:\/\/flic.kr\/s\/aHsjwBJiZx\" target=\"_blank\">View photos from the session on Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UW-Stevens Point STEM\u00a0Career Day\u00a0is a precollege and enrichment conference to introduce students in grades 9-12 to careers in <strong>science, technology, engineering, and mathematics<\/strong>. Students chose from a selection of STEM workshops that offered a variety of different hands-on and discussion activities, presented by a STEM career professional from on or off campus.<\/p>\n<p>The program showcases UW-Stevens Point\u2019s STEM departments, its campus, and provides students with a better understanding of the numerous careers opportunities available to them in STEM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some are fans of &#8220;CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,&#8221; while others have a relative who is a nurse, but no matter how they became interested in the medical field, high school students from throughout Wisconsin had the opportunity to experience a medical investigation lab at the UW-Stevens Point STEM\u00a0Career Day on Friday, Nov. 4. School of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12,14,19],"tags":[172,303,343,344],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}