{"id":4430,"date":"2017-09-06T13:14:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T17:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/washington\/?p=4430"},"modified":"2018-09-10T14:44:28","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T18:44:28","slug":"4-h-summer-of-science-brings-stem-learning-to-communities-throughout-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/washington\/2017\/09\/06\/4-h-summer-of-science-brings-stem-learning-to-communities-throughout-maine\/","title":{"rendered":"4-H Summer of Science brings STEM learning to communities throughout Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"4431\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4431 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/washington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2017\/09\/Summer-of-Science1-1-1-1-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Participants in the Princeton area became engineers and built a wind powered vehicle. The goal of the activity was to see how far the vehicle would travel blowing on it once.\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/washington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2017\/09\/Summer-of-Science1-1-1-1-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/washington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2017\/09\/Summer-of-Science1-1-1-1-79x140.jpg 79w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/washington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2017\/09\/Summer-of-Science1-1-1-1-317x564.jpg 317w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/washington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2017\/09\/Summer-of-Science1-1-1-1-423x752.jpg 423w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/washington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2017\/09\/Summer-of-Science1-1-1-1.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants in the Princeton area became engineers and built a wind powered vehicle. The goal of the activity was to see how far the vehicle would travel blowing on it once.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This summer in 16 communities statewide, more than 2,000 youths ages 8-13 participated in the Maine 4-H Summer of Science, which provided hands-on STEM learning activities in areas ranging from animal adaptation and bioremediation to chromatography and engineering design.<\/p>\n<p>Maine 4-H Summer of Science was offered in Auburn, Bath, Biddeford, Cape Elizabeth, Gray, Freeport, Lewiston, Lisbon, Lubec, Machias, New Gloucester, Portland, Princeton, Standish, Topsham and Westbrook. Twenty teen teachers, as well as adult volunteers and 4-H staff members, led the weekly experiential learning activities, designed to build interest in science and prevent summer learning loss.<\/p>\n<p>Maine 4-H Summer of Science brings programming to youth \u2014 at free-or-reduced lunch sites, libraries, summer school programs and camp sites. Community partners included Boys &amp; Girls Clubs, YMCAs, schools, public housing authorities and recreation camps.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s theme \u2014 innovation engineering \u2014 was supported by Maine EPSCoR, the Maine 4-H Foundation, USDA\/NIFA Children, Youth, and Families at Risk Grant, and the Walmart Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>More information about 4-H is available from <a href=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/county-offices\/all\/\">UMaine Extension county offices<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer in 16 communities statewide, more than 2,000 youths ages 8-13 participated in the Maine 4-H Summer of Science, which provided hands-on STEM learning activities in areas ranging from animal adaptation and bioremediation to chromatography and engineering design. 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