{"id":85592,"date":"2019-02-06T12:12:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T20:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=85592"},"modified":"2019-03-25T10:20:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T17:20:13","slug":"esperanza-elementary-students-are-femineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2019\/02\/06\/esperanza-elementary-students-are-femineers\/","title":{"rendered":"Esperanza Elementary students are Femineers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_85593\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85593\" style=\"width: 801px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85593\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Local-Femineers-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"801\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Local-Femineers-1.jpg 801w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Local-Femineers-1-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Local-Femineers-1-768x449.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 801px) 100vw, 801px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-85593\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esperanza\u2019s Femineers just started their first 30-hour project. [Contributed image]<\/figcaption><\/figure>PALMDALE &#8211;\u00a0Esperanza Elementary School is one of three elementary schools in the nation taking part in the Cal Poly Pomona Femineer Program.<\/p>\n<p>The project-based learning program was created and funded by Cal Poly Pomona\u2019s College of Engineering in 2013 to inspire girls to pursue STEM in education and their careers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur Femineers are working with real-world applications, acquire the technical knowledge and practical skills necessary to become confident and strong in their future careers,\u201d stated Esperanza Elementary School Vice Principal Sandy Jones.<\/p>\n<p>Esperanza\u2019s Femineers just started their first 30-hour project, Femineers are learning to use hand tools, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gearhungry.com\/best-screwdriver-set\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">like a screwdriver<\/a>, a utility knife, or a tape measure. They also learn about basic electronics, wiring, sensors, and motors, as well as the operation of the Hummingbird microcontroller using Scratch programming language.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Femineers at Esperanza are acquiring technical knowledge and practical skills necessary to become confident and strong in their future careers.\u201d stated Westside Superintendent Regina Rossall.<\/p>\n<p>In May, students will travel to Cal Poly Pomona and present their projects to other cohorts at the 2019 Femineer Summit.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_85594\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85594\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85594\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Local-Femineers-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Local-Femineers-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Local-Femineers-2-256x300.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-85594\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Femineers are learning to use hand tools. [Contributed image]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h6><em>[Information via news release from the\u00a0Westside Union School District.]<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALMDALE &#8211;\u00a0Esperanza Elementary School is one of three elementary schools in the nation taking part in the Cal Poly Pomona Femineer Program. The project-based learning program was created and funded by Cal Poly Pomona\u2019s College of Engineering in 2013 to inspire girls to pursue STEM in education and their careers. \u201cOur Femineers are working with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,1499,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}