{"id":1380,"date":"2011-12-07T17:17:18","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T17:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2011-12-07T17:17:18","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T17:17:18","slug":"who-is-your-superstar-of-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/2011\/12\/07\/who-is-your-superstar-of-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Your Superstar of Science?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Perth and Kinross primary school pupils are being tasked to pinpoint their \u2018superstar of science\u2019, whether an inventor, modern-day computer games designer, or explorer.<\/p>\n<p>Organised by the Association for Science Education &lt;<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asescotland.org.uk\/annual-conference.html\">http:\/\/www.asescotland.org.uk\/annual-conference.html<\/a><\/span><\/span>&gt; , whose annual Scottish conference will be held at Crieff Hydro Hotel on Friday 2 and Saturday 3 March 2012, the Superstars of Science competition will ask primary 4-7 pupils in Perth and Perthshire to select their science hero and research his or her impact on modern-day life.<\/p>\n<p>Superstars can be alive or dead, from anywhere in the world and associated with any scientific speciality or era, past or present. TechFest-SetPoint, a Scottish educational charity which promotes STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) subjects, will shortly be sending competition packs to all local authority and independent primary schools throughout the area.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perth and Kinross primary school pupils are being tasked to pinpoint their \u2018superstar of science\u2019, whether an inventor, modern-day computer games designer, or explorer. Organised by the Association for Science Education &lt;http:\/\/www.asescotland.org.uk\/annual-conference.html&gt; , whose annual Scottish conference will be held at Crieff Hydro Hotel on Friday 2 and Saturday 3 March 2012, the Superstars of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/2011\/12\/07\/who-is-your-superstar-of-science\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Who is Your Superstar of Science?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1272,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1033],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sciences-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1381,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions\/1381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}