{"id":1827,"date":"2014-08-15T18:36:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T22:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=1827"},"modified":"2014-09-01T18:36:37","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T22:36:37","slug":"science-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=1827","title":{"rendered":"Science Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_1341.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1829\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_1341-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1341\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_1341-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_1341-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aidan wanted to try something new this summer. \u00c2\u00a0We found some great week long camps at the Museum of Science. \u00c2\u00a0So we decided to try one out- creating your own video game.<\/p>\n<p>Minecraft has been Aidan&#8217;s big thing since getting his laptop for his birthday. \u00c2\u00a0He loves to build things and is really proud of what he can make. \u00c2\u00a0During his week of science camp he was super enthusiastic every day. \u00c2\u00a0He couldn&#8217;t wait to see what was in store and eagerly looked forward to showing us the game he created.<\/p>\n<p>A few things stood out for me though- there were no female instructors. \u00c2\u00a0Four men- two staff from the company running the camp and two MIT college students staffed the week. \u00c2\u00a0There were twelve students (it was limited and &#8220;sold out&#8221; in April!). \u00c2\u00a0Of the twelve students only two were girls. \u00c2\u00a0When it was time for the students to present, one of the girls had asked in advance for the instructor to demo her game while she showed it off on the projector (the reverse of all the other students).<a href=\"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_1338.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1828 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_1338-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1338\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_1338-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_1338-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know how much Aidan loved the camp and he really wants to do something like this again. \u00c2\u00a0It was my first experience seeing the effects of girls and STEM camps. \u00c2\u00a0It made me realize how important supporting girls in STEM fields are and making sure my boys know how valued everyone is in whatever field they choose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aidan wanted to try something new this summer. \u00c2\u00a0We found some great week long camps at the Museum of Science. \u00c2\u00a0So we decided to try one out- creating your own video game. Minecraft has been Aidan&#8217;s big thing since getting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=1827\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1830,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions\/1830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}