{"id":2884,"date":"2008-08-29T08:12:52","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T08:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/08\/29\/adopt-a-physicist\/"},"modified":"2008-08-29T08:12:52","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T08:12:52","slug":"adopt-a-physicist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/08\/29\/adopt-a-physicist\/","title":{"rendered":"Adopt a Physicist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, not me. Not literally, anyway&#8211; I&#8217;m quite happy with my current family.<\/p>\n<p>Sigma Pi Sigma, the APS, and the AAPT are running a program called <a href=http:\/\/www.adoptaphysicist.org\/\">&#8220;Adopt-a-Physicist<\/a> to help high school students learn more about what careers in physics are like:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Physicists and students interact through discussion forums for a three-week period. Before the three week period begins, the physicists and classes (via the teachers) each create a brief introduction page. After registration closes, teachers choose some physicists for their classes to interact with, preferably from different career categories.<\/p>\n<p>The physicists each host a discussion forum where students dialogue with them about careers, educational level, current projects, and other topics of interest.<\/p>\n<p>This structure lets students interact with physicists and learn first-hand what people with degrees in physics are doing. In addition to dialoguing with their assigned physicists, students can also read conversations between other physicists and students.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a physics teacher and this sounds interesting, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adoptaphysicist.org\/user\/RegisterTeacher.cfm\">register<\/a> on the site, until September 8th. If you&#8217;re a physicist and this sounds interesting, they&#8217;ll be taking volunteers starting September 9th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, not me. Not literally, anyway&#8211; I&#8217;m quite happy with my current family. Sigma Pi Sigma, the APS, and the AAPT are running a program called<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13,7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-education","category-physics","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}