{"id":4580,"date":"2024-02-07T13:25:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T18:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/smile\/?p=4580"},"modified":"2024-02-09T15:27:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T20:27:22","slug":"smile-february-2024-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/smile\/smile-february-2024-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"SMILE February 2024 Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Middle &amp; High School Engineering Program<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On March 22nd the Middle School Engineering Challenge will take place. The goal will be designing, building, and testing a Crane and MagLev train. Then, on April 5th the High School Engineering Challenge with take place. Here, students will work on designing, building, and testing a cooling system for a model submarine. These challenges will take place in the Memorial Union Ballroom. If anyone needs more information about the challenges you can email jobasel@uri.edu or cenglander@uri.edu . <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Challenge Mentor Signup<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are looking for corporate and alumni mentors to help students during our upcoming middle &amp; high school challenges. The job of these mentors is to act as a sounding board for the students. This is a call to all corporate sponsors and other SMILE supporters to sign up to be mentors for our exctiting annual engineering challenges. Below is a form to sign up, please take the time to fill it out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/17xJrF9N3glJx7KjPidsBmj7JkNJ3IT8mG6XWPaOVmgQ\/edit?ts=65c3b709\">Engineering Challenge Sign-Up Form<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SMILE Scholarship Info<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SMILE awards a $500 scholarship annually to up to six high school seniors who have been in SMILE for 3+ years. The criteria and application form can be viewed via the link below. Principals, we would appreciate it if you would share this sheet with guidance counselors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/smile\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/910\/SMILE-Scholarship-Application-Final.pdf\">SMILE Scholarship Requirement Sheet<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middle &amp; High School Engineering Program On March 22nd the Middle School Engineering Challenge will take place. The goal will be designing, building, and testing a Crane and MagLev train. Then, on April 5th the High School Engineering Challenge with take place. Here, students will work on designing, building, and testing a cooling system for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4722,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4722"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4580"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4595,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4580\/revisions\/4595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}