{"id":1130,"date":"2013-11-21T15:08:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T20:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2015-05-05T19:52:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T23:52:56","slug":"vast-science-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/?p=1130","title":{"rendered":"Science Night at Vassar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday November 12, VAST hosted a family event about the wonders of science. Vassar College Chemistry Professor Christopher Smart led a demonstration teaching chemistry concepts to the scholars. Professor Smart was very dynamic and fun to watch. The show ended with ice cream for the audience made from liquid nitrogen&#8211; very cool!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1131\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/files\/2013\/11\/photo-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1131\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1131\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/files\/2013\/11\/photo-8-290x290.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Smart using bubbles to test the gases in the fish tank\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1131\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Smart using bubbles to test the type of gases in the fish tank<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/files\/2013\/11\/photo-101.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-1132\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/files\/2013\/11\/photo-101-290x290.jpg\" alt=\"photo 10\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The VAST audience was engrossed in the performance. It was very interactive and students eagerly raised their hands to make a hypothesis about what was happening on stage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/files\/2013\/11\/photo-91.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-1133\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/files\/2013\/11\/photo-91-290x290.jpg\" alt=\"photo 9\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a great way to engage the students in science! Hopefully we will continue to do science experiments at VAST.<\/p>\n<p>THANK YOU Professor Smart for teaching us so much!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday November 12, VAST hosted a family event about the wonders of science. Vassar College Chemistry Professor Christopher Smart led a demonstration teaching chemistry concepts to the scholars. Professor Smart was very dynamic and fun to watch. The show ended with ice cream for the audience made from liquid nitrogen&#8211; very cool! &nbsp; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6979,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-parent-resources","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1749,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions\/1749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}