{"id":3228,"date":"2015-06-02T19:42:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T19:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=3228"},"modified":"2019-06-04T16:21:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T21:21:06","slug":"high-school-students-invited-to-discover-life-sciences-careers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2015\/06\/02\/high-school-students-invited-to-discover-life-sciences-careers\/","title":{"rendered":"High school students invited to discover life sciences careers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/06\/discover-science-featured-image.jpg\" class=\"broken_link\"><\/a>Missouri Western State University will host the Discover Science! Summer Day Camp for students entering their junior and senior years in high school June 15-19 in Remington Hall on the Missouri Western campus. The camp will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.<\/p>\n<p>The camp, funded by a grant from Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica Inc., will offer students with career goals in life sciences an opportunity to learn and experience advanced topics in biochemistry and molecular biology in a creative, hands-on laboratory setting.<\/p>\n<p>A planned \u201cbehind the scenes\u201d tour of Boehringer\u2019s facility in St. Joseph will allow students to experience the large-scale application of the techniques they learn during the program and prepare them to consider some of the challenging and rewarding career opportunities available in biotechnology and industrial life sciences.<\/p>\n<p>Enrollment is limited to 24 students. Participants will be selected competitively based on their application and a recommendation from a science teacher. The application deadline is 11:59 p.m. Thursday, June 11.<\/p>\n<p>The registration fee is $100. The fee may be waived in a limited number of cases based on family income.<\/p>\n<p>Additional information and application materials are available online at www.missouriwestern.edu\/discoverscience. You may also email one of the coordinators: Dr. Csengele Barta, <a href=\"mailto:cbarta1@missouriwestern.edu\">cbarta1@missouriwestern.edu<\/a>; Dr. Steven Hatch, <a href=\"mailto:shatch@missouriwestern.edu\">shatch@missouriwestern.edu<\/a>; Dr. Stan Svojanovsky, <a href=\"mailto:ssvojano@missouriwestern.edu\">ssvojano@missouriwestern.edu<\/a>; or Dr. Jonathan Rhoad, <a href=\"mailto:jrhoad1@missouriwestern.edu\">jrhoad1@missouriwestern.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Missouri Western State University is a comprehensive regional university providing a blend of traditional liberal arts and professional degree programs. The university offers student-centered, high quality instruction that focuses on experience-based learning, community service, and state-of-the-art technology. Missouri Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\">www.missouriwestern.edu<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri Western State University will host the Discover Science! Summer Day Camp for students entering their junior and senior years in high school June 15-19 in Remington Hall on the Missouri Western campus. The camp will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. The camp, funded by a grant from Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[170,283,284,307],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8061,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions\/8061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}