{"id":8319,"date":"2012-02-14T09:43:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T15:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bemidjistate.edu\/bsutoday\/?p=8319"},"modified":"2021-11-01T15:24:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T20:24:13","slug":"bsu-to-host-northern-minnesota-regional-science-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2012\/02\/14\/bsu-to-host-northern-minnesota-regional-science-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"BSU to Host Northern Minnesota Regional Science Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEMIDJI, Minn. (Feb. 14, 2012) &mdash; Bemidji State University will play host to the 59th Northern Minnesota Regional Science Fair on Feb. 25.<\/p>\n<p>The fair will run from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Memorial Hall 100 on the BSU campus with exhibits open to the public at 11:45 a.m. and the awards ceremony beginning at 12:45 p.m. in Hagg-Sauer 100.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 150 students from the 15 county region will compete in the fair with the top projects advancing to the Minnesota State Science and Engineering Fair.<\/p>\n<p>Students submit a variety of projects in all areas of science and engineering.&nbsp; Projects have included macroinvertebrate populations, the design and development of high voltage oceanic wave electrolysis, and development of an eco-friendly paver using incinerator ash.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The fair provides students an opportunity to be recognized for doing science, rather than just reading or hearing about science,&rdquo; said Patrick Guilfoile, associate vice president of academic affairs at Bemidji State University.<\/p>\n<p>Students can win a variety of awards with the top prize being a trip to the International Science and Engineering Fair held in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the science fair contact Patrick Guilfoile at 218-755-2016 or pguilfoile@bemidjistate.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEMIDJI, Minn. (Feb. 14, 2012) &mdash; Bemidji State University will play host to the 59th Northern Minnesota Regional Science Fair on Feb. 25. The fair will run from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Memorial Hall 100 on the BSU campus with exhibits open to the public at 11:45 a.m. and the awards ceremony beginning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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":[681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-updates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43787,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8319\/revisions\/43787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}