{"id":1595,"date":"2012-09-21T15:29:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T22:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/news-p\/wordpress\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2012-10-23T09:15:48","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T16:15:48","slug":"nau-science-and-engineering-day-promises-fun-for-all-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-science-and-engineering-day-promises-fun-for-all-ages\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU Science and Engineering Day promises fun for all ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifest.org\/\">Flagstaff Festival of Science<\/a>\u00a0returns to excite and inspire the next generation of scientists and offer educational activities for science lovers throughout the community.<\/p>\n<p>The free 10-day festival\u2019s theme is \u201cMaking Waves.\u201d From ancient oceans to disappearing springs, Flagstaff\u2019s dark skies to the Martian surface, giant armadillos to mountain lions, Earth\u2019s lava to Titan\u2019s polar seas, the 2012 festival is making waves across the universe from Sept. 21-30.<\/p>\n<p>A local favorite from the festival is helping kick things off tomorrow. The annual NAU Science and Engineering Day takes place from 1-4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22, at the High Country Conference Center and at the Wettaw Biology\/Biochemistry buildings. The event promotes youth learning and interest in science with hands-on science experiments, creepy crawlers and magical chemistry shows. Kids of all ages are invited to learn about rockets, robots and the rumblings of northern Arizona\u2019s seismic activity.<\/p>\n<p>All events during the festival are free and open to the public. Visit the festival&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifest.org\/\">website<\/a>\u00a0to print your passport for activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-science-and-engineering-day-promises-fun-for-all-ages\/\">The\u00a0Flagstaff Festival of Science\u00a0returns to excite and inspire the next generation of scientists and offer educational activities for science lovers throughout the community. The free 10-day festival\u2019s theme is \u201cMaking Waves.\u201d From ancient oceans to disappearing springs, Flagstaff\u2019s dark skies to the Martian surface, giant armadillos to mountain lions, Earth\u2019s lava to Titan\u2019s polar seas,&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":1597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happenings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}