{"id":68065,"date":"2017-02-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-discovery-festival-showcases-careers-in-science\/"},"modified":"2017-02-18T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T19:00:00","slug":"colorado-discovery-festival-showcases-careers-in-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-discovery-festival-showcases-careers-in-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Discovery Festival showcases careers in science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- gallery:1e7b193b-7c94-49d7-b278-92c27f7ad978 --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video wp-block-embed-youtube naviga-video-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JPdJl0RcOTc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>With pipettes, students carefully added rubbing alcohol to plastic tubes to help DNA from wheat unwind.<\/p>\n<p>Shaking their tubes as instructed, they saw hundreds of thousands of white strands. These are the building blocks of life, explained Kate Petty, a senior at Durango High School.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll that goop is instruction,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>About 450 students representing the Durango, Cortez and Mancos school districts gathered Friday at the Fort Lewis College Student Life Center to learn about science, technology, engineering and mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Colorado and the Powerhouse Science Center hosted the Colorado Discovery Festival to encourage students, especially girls, to think about careers in these fields.<\/p>\n<p>The Durango Police Department, La Plata County, The Garden Project of Southwest Colorado and other employers were among the 20 booths.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt really gives them an opportunity to showcase their business, to really engage with kids on a level they haven\u2019t done before,\u201d said Anita Carpenter, executive director of Big Brothers Big Sisters.<\/p>\n<p>The festival is free and open to children and their families from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today at the Fort Lewis College Student Life Center.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:mshinn@durangoherald.com\">mshinn@durangoherald.com<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>encourages students to have fun, think about the future<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,155,13,242,358,4747,316],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-68065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-education","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-mathematics","tag-science-and-technology","tag-slideshow","tag-video"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68065"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=68065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}