{"id":3538,"date":"2020-02-22T07:29:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T14:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/astronomy-and-planetary-science\/?p=3538"},"modified":"2020-02-24T07:33:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T14:33:40","slug":"from-slime-to-rockets-killip-elementary-hosts-first-stem-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/from-slime-to-rockets-killip-elementary-hosts-first-stem-night\/","title":{"rendered":"From slime to rockets: Killip Elementary hosts first STEM Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Along the adjacent hallway, students traversed through a scale model of the inner solar system, replicated with notecards hanging from the ceiling to show the distance between the planets. Erin Aadland, a doctoral candidate in NAU\u2019s Astronomy and Planetary Science program who set up the model, said she was impressed by students\u2019 knowledge of the solar system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not all new information for them,\u201d Aadland said. \u201cI think they have a better understanding of the solar system than I ever did at their age.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/azdailysun.com\/news\/local\/from-slime-to-rockets-killip-elementary-hosts-first-stem-night\/article_589c88a4-7650-5d6a-b1b2-b7a980482f65.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From slime to rockets: Killip Elementary hosts first STEM Night (azdailysun.com)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along the adjacent hallway, students traversed through a scale model of the inner solar system, replicated with notecards hanging from the ceiling to show the distance between the planets. Erin Aadland, a doctoral candidate in NAU\u2019s Astronomy and Planetary Science program who set up the model, said she was impressed by students\u2019 knowledge of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-astronomy-and-planetary-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3538"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3543,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3538\/revisions\/3543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}