{"id":12191,"date":"2013-10-02T15:42:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T21:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=12191"},"modified":"2013-10-02T15:43:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T21:43:09","slug":"cool-science-festibal-begins-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=12191","title":{"rendered":"Cool Science Festival to begin on campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2647533.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12192\" alt=\"2647533\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2647533.png\" width=\"173\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a>A week-long Colorado Springs Cool Science Festival will begin with Carnival Day at UCCS Oct. 5.<\/p>\n<p>From 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday at locations throughout campus, there will be more than 80 hands-on science activities designed to build community and stimulate young people to consider studies and careers in science.<\/p>\n<p>For a complete schedule of events, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cssciencefestival.org\/cool-science-carnival-day-at-uccs.html\">http:\/\/www.cssciencefestival.org\/cool-science-carnival-day-at-uccs.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All events are free and designed for all ages to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>Festival activities are scheduled from Oct. 5 to Oct. 13 and include downtown science demos, rocket launching, stargazing, Antarctic researchers, science films, beer chemistry, nature exploration, crime lab tours, family science Night, a climbing Mt. Everest talk, a Rubik\u2019s Cube competition, a recycling tour, and the physics of rock climbing.<\/p>\n<p>For a complete schedule and to register, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.CSScienceFestival.org\">www.CSScienceFestival.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Kathleen Fitzpatrick, programs manager, Center for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Education, 255-5124, or <a href=\"mailto:kfitzpat@uccs.edu\">kfitzpat@uccs.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>A week-long Colorado Springs Cool Science Festival will begin with Carnival Day at UCCS Oct. 5. From 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday at locations throughout campus, there will be more than 80 hands-on science <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=12191\" title=\"Cool Science Festival to begin on campus\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-upcoming-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2647533.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-3aD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12194,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12191\/revisions\/12194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}