{"id":63100,"date":"2015-03-19T13:17:55","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T18:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=63100"},"modified":"2015-03-19T13:17:55","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T18:17:55","slug":"tech-savvy-returning-to-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2015\/03\/tech-savvy-returning-to-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Savvy returning to campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #2d2d2d;\">Delta State University will host Tech Savvy on March 21, a conference for young girls\u00a0sponsored by the American Association of University Women (AAUW).\u00a0Tech Savvy is a national pilot program designed for girls to experience firsthand how science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields can lead to exciting careers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #2d2d2d;\">The workshop, scheduled from 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m., is geared toward girls in grades six to nine. A $10 registration fee includes breakfast, lunch and t-shirt for participants. Special sessions for parents and family will also be held for college and career path guidance. Girls and parents can register find printer-friendly registration forms at\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; color: #00753e;\" href=\"http:\/\/cleveland-ms.aauw.net\/welcome\/tech-savvy\/\">http:\/\/cleveland-ms.aauw.net\/welcome\/tech-savvy\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #2d2d2d;\">The Mississippi Tech Savvy conference is one of 10 pilot programs nationwide. The pilot program, which furthers AAUW\u2019s commitment to widening the pipeline for women in STEM (<span style=\"color: #222222;\">Science, Technology, Engineering and Math education)<\/span>, is funded in part by grants from the Praxair Foundation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #2d2d2d;\">President of the Cleveland Branch of AAUW Dr. Glendscene Williams is coordinating the conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;Tech Savvy is such an important conference for 6<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\">-9<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> grade girls because it inspires them to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math,&#8221; said Joi Phillips, finance officer for\u00a0AAUW-Cleveland. &#8220;We\u2019re so excited about introducing girls to women\u00a0who\u00a0are already succeeding in STEM fields, and we hope this conference will encourage girls to follow a similar career path.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #2d2d2d;\">The structure and activities of Tech Savvy support and further the goals and best practices described in AAUW\u2019s highly acclaimed and influential research report \u201cWhy So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #2d2d2d;\">For\u00a0more information, register for the event or donate to the conference, please visit<a href=\"%20http:\/\/cleveland-ms.aauw.net\/\"> http:\/\/cleveland-ms.aauw.net\/<\/a> or call 662-846-4233.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delta State University will host Tech Savvy on March 21, a conference for young girls\u00a0sponsored by the American Association of University Women (AAUW).\u00a0Tech Savvy is a national pilot program designed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":63102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[337,397,561],"class_list":["post-63100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-academics","tag-education","tag-tech-savvy","tag-youth"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63100"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63106,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63100\/revisions\/63106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}