{"id":207850,"date":"2022-05-31T09:25:19","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T13:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/?p=207850"},"modified":"2022-05-31T09:25:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T13:25:19","slug":"student-team-from-stem-center-africa-win-all-girls-launch-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/2022\/05\/31\/student-team-from-stem-center-africa-win-all-girls-launch-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Team from STEM Center Africa Win &#8220;All Girls Launch Prize&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mathematics Education doctoral student, Denish Akuom, is the Founder of <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stemcenter-africa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">STEM Center Africa<\/a>, a non-profit organization that aims to promote STEM education in Africa and beyond. We\u2019re thrilled to share the news that a team of girls from the school participated in the <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isset.space\/pages\/launchprize\" target=\"_blank\">All Girls Launch Prize<\/a> organized by <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/isset.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">ISSET, the International Space School Educational Training<\/a>, with their <em>Zero Gravity Project: Using Arduino UNO to Design a Dust-Repellent Surface<\/em>. The announcement was made in a ceremony with NASA&#8217;s Sarah Murray &amp; Astronaut Barbara Morgan.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Video: Launch Prize Winners Announcement Ceremony Led by NASA&amp;#039;s Sarah Murray &amp;amp; Astronaut Barbara Morgan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v-W_sDYFf_c?feature=oembed\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen style=\"width: 500px; height: 281px; border: 0px solid #000;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The group was selected out of 220 teams from around the world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":207851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards-recognition","category-math-ed-phd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207852,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207850\/revisions\/207852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}