{"id":2809,"date":"2016-05-19T14:17:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T21:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/sen-fain-charger-robotics-team-attend-event-at-museum\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T21:35:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T04:35:33","slug":"sen-fain-charger-robotics-team-attend-event-at-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/sen-fain-charger-robotics-team-attend-event-at-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Fain, Charger robotics team attend event at museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>For the Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Kentridge High School student Martina Du and state Sen. Joe Fain (R-Auburn) spoke at a Washington FIRST Robotics event Tuesday at the Museum of History and Industry in Seattle.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Washington FIRST Robotics is part of a national organization that emphasizes STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education and leadership through hands-on robotics programs, competitions and scholarships.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Du, a member of the Charger robotics team, spoke eloquently about what FIRST means to her and students all over the state.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;FIRST Robotics is more than just a program to develop technical skills,&#8221; Fain said. &#8220;It&#8217;s about exposing a generation of students to the culture of science and the knowledge, problem solving skills and infectious curiosity that comes with it.&#8221;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kentridge High School student Martina Du and state Sen. Joe Fain (R-Auburn) spoke at a Washington FIRST Robotics event Tuesday at the Museum of History and Industry in Seattle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":2810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-2809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2809"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}