{"id":2310,"date":"2012-10-20T15:02:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T22:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.educatoral.com\/wordpress\/?p=2310"},"modified":"2012-10-20T21:36:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T04:36:37","slug":"getting-more-girls-into-stem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/20\/getting-more-girls-into-stem\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting More Girls Into STEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m participating in this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/seattleedu.startupweekend.org\/\">Seattle EDU Startup Weekend<\/a> (follow at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23SWSEAedu&amp;src=hash\">#SWSeaEDU<\/a>) and I&#8217;ve joined a group working on a solution to get more girls into STEM by catching them early and getting them excited about learning programming basics.<\/p>\n<p>We need your help. Please answer a few questions to help validate our idea. What we&#8217;re building is an app game where young girls can learn basic programming skills by maneuvering a pet using arrow type commands. Eventually they can buy a real version of their pet that will respond to the game commands! (Think lego mindstorms meets virtual pets! A fun, engaging, easy to learn game with a real pet component.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheet\/embeddedform?formkey=dHh4WENQdVR2R1k4bnZBWXprV1pOV2c6MQ\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" width=\"550\" height=\"2300\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m participating in this year&#8217;s Seattle EDU Startup Weekend (follow at #SWSeaEDU) and I&#8217;ve joined a group working on a solution to get more girls into STEM by catching them early and getting them excited about learning programming basics. We need your help. Please answer a few questions to help validate our idea. What we&#8217;re &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/20\/getting-more-girls-into-stem\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2230,118,1344],"tags":[2410,2407,2414,2411,2405,2413,2406,2408,117,2415,2409],"class_list":["post-2310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gamification","category-science","category-tech","tag-arrow","tag-basic-programming","tag-game-commands","tag-game-girls","tag-girls","tag-lego-mindstorms","tag-programming-basics","tag-programming-skills","tag-seattle","tag-virtual-pets","tag-young-girls","item-wrap"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2310"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2323,"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions\/2323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}