{"id":28404,"date":"2017-05-18T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/mill-creek-middle-school-learn-about-bioengineering\/"},"modified":"2017-05-18T14:35:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T21:35:12","slug":"mill-creek-middle-school-learn-about-bioengineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/mill-creek-middle-school-learn-about-bioengineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Mill Creek Middle School students learn about bioengineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In hopes of getting seventh-grade students interested in science and medicine, Kent&rsquo;s Mill Creek Middle School hosted an engineering day on May 5.<\/p>\n<p>During science class that day, seventh-graders attended one of four workshops led by graduate and undergraduate students from the University of Washington&rsquo;s bioengineering program.<\/p>\n<p>Topics were building a prosthetic, fun with DNA and genetically engineered machines, doctor for a day and diagnosing diseases. Students took part in hands-on activities including building a prosthetic legs using everyday objects, learning to tie sutures, operating an ultrasound machine and testing samples to diagnose disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In hopes of getting seventh-grade students interested in science and medicine, Kent&rsquo;s Mill Creek Middle School hosted an engineering day on May 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":227,"featured_media":28405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-28404","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\/28404"}],"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\/227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28404"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=28404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}