{"id":3454,"date":"2017-10-28T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/?p=3454"},"modified":"2017-10-28T15:25:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T22:25:00","slug":"science-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/2017\/10\/28\/science-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Games?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Parents and Students:<\/p>\n<p>Some of you already know each year I try to take a team to the Engineers and Geophysicists Association&#8217;s Science Games at Science World. This is an extracurricular opportunity for a team of students from the school. The last two years our teams have done very well and the event is a lot of fun for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the competition takes place on&nbsp;<strong>Saturday, March 10, 2018 at&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Telus World of Science<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We are not guaranteed a spot to compete. <\/strong>We submit an application for one team of five students to attend, and then the Association has a lottery and we keep our fingers crossed for a spot!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Students who are interested in this activity may submit their name for a lottery <\/strong>draw amongst MACC students in grades 4-7 (I open it to both classes.) Anyone&nbsp;who gives their name needs to understand:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"\" dir=\"\">\n<li>\u200bStudents&nbsp;need to be available all day on March 10th, so check the calendar please,<\/li>\n<li>Students need their own parent&nbsp;transportation to and from the event,<\/li>\n<li>Preparation and research study is required, on the student&#8217;s own time outside of class, to create a project and to prepare for the challenge activities, and<\/li>\n<li>Those who participate need to understand we are judged on creativity, knowledge, and the ability to collaborate&nbsp;as a TEAM to create a solution to the challenges.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>If your child is interested, please just have them tell me on Monday. <em>Team selection is by lottery AND we don&#8217;t have a guarantee we will have a spot at the competition yet.&nbsp;<\/em><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Thank you!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Parents and Students: Some of you already know each year I try to take a team to the Engineers and Geophysicists Association&#8217;s Science Games at Science World. This is an extracurricular opportunity for a team of students from the school. The last two years our teams have done very well and the event is a lot of fun for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4053,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4053"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3455,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454\/revisions\/3455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}