{"id":2840,"date":"2014-06-18T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T09:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/?p=2840"},"modified":"2014-06-18T09:57:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T09:57:00","slug":"school-pupils-try-out-life-sciences-at-biocity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/2014\/06\/18\/school-pupils-try-out-life-sciences-at-biocity\/","title":{"rendered":"School pupils try out life sciences at BioCity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the life sciences Skills Investment Plan, launched in April at BioCity Scotland, 156 S3+ pupils from 11 different schools in central Scotland took part in a unique innovation and enterprise day. Pupils learnt through hands-on activities how these companies have taken a &#8216;good idea&#8217;, supported that idea with scientific research and developed it into a business.<\/p>\n<p>Ronnie Palin, Key Sector Manager for Life Sciences at SDS added: &#8220;This ground-breaking event offered young people the opportunity to gain real hands-on experience of the opportunities within Scotland&#8217;s expanding life sciences industry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skillsdevelopmentscotland.co.uk\/news-and-events\/news\/school-pupils-try-out-life-sciences-at-biocity\/\">http:\/\/www.skillsdevelopmentscotland.co.uk\/news-and-events\/news\/school-pupils-try-out-life-sciences-at-biocity\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the life sciences Skills Investment Plan, launched in April at BioCity Scotland, 156 S3+ pupils from 11 different schools in central Scotland took part in a unique innovation and enterprise day. Pupils learnt through hands-on activities how these companies have taken a &#8216;good idea&#8217;, supported that idea with scientific research and developed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/2014\/06\/18\/school-pupils-try-out-life-sciences-at-biocity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">School pupils try out life sciences at BioCity<\/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-2840","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\/2840","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=2840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2841,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions\/2841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}