{"id":2250,"date":"2013-01-31T15:43:51","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T21:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/?p=2250"},"modified":"2013-01-31T15:57:09","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T21:57:09","slug":"fostering-stem-careers-and-college-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/articles\/2250","title":{"rendered":"Fostering STEM Careers and College Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On\u00a0 Thursday, 31 January 2013, students in an AP aviation course at Madison&#8217;s Edgewood High School visited SSEC\/CIMSS to learn more about some of the exciting research going on in our building.<\/p>\n<p>Margaret Mooney greeted the group in the lobby before presenting satellite meteorology topics on the 3D globe.\u00a0Lee Cronce presented aviation meteorology topics to the students in the CAVE (<strong>C<\/strong>IMSS\u00a0<strong>A<\/strong>nalysis and\u00a0<strong>V<\/strong>isualization\u00a0<strong>E<\/strong>nvironment).<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/01\/ap_lee_565_623.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2253\" alt=\"lee cronce\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/01\/ap_lee_565_623.jpg\" width=\"565\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/01\/ap_lee_565_623.jpg 565w, https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/01\/ap_lee_565_623-272x300.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/01\/ap_class_565_346.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2251\" alt=\"ap_class_565_346\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/01\/ap_class_565_346.jpg\" width=\"565\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/01\/ap_class_565_346.jpg 565w, https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/01\/ap_class_565_346-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/01\/ap_class_565_346-500x297.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both Mooney and Cronce discussed their careers and shared what they love about science and weather.\u00a0The students asked several on-topic questions and, in spite of a fresh snow cover and below zero wind chills, wrapped up their visit with a trip to the roof!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/01\/ap_students_565_244.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2254\" alt=\"ap_students_565_244\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/01\/ap_students_565_244.jpg\" width=\"565\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/01\/ap_students_565_244.jpg 565w, https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/01\/ap_students_565_244-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/01\/ap_students_565_244-500x214.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">SSEC\/CIMSS welcomes visits from all area high schools, especially from students inclined towards science-related careers. Similar to the CIMSS Student <a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/studentworkshop\/\">Workshop<\/a>, engaging these students helps maintain a pipeline to future scientists and researchers.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Edgewood avaition class, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewoodhs.org\/acad\/cours\/subj\/aviatn\">http:\/\/www.edgewoodhs.org\/acad\/cours\/subj\/aviatn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP Aviation Class Examines Meteorology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-articles"],"acf":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2258,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions\/2258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}