{"id":26880,"date":"2017-05-02T18:40:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T08:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/?p=26880"},"modified":"2018-11-15T09:24:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T22:24:30","slug":"ministers-mesmerised-by-stem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/?p=26880","title":{"rendered":"Ministers Mesmerised by STEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"LEFT\">The College was fortunate enough to have the honourable Karen Andrews MP, Assistant Minister for Vocational Education and Skills and Ms Cathy McGowan AO, MP, our Member for Indi visit the College today.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-26888\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/WISTEM2-1024x541.jpg\" alt=\"WISTEM2\" width=\"569\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/WISTEM2-1024x541.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/WISTEM2-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 569px) 100vw, 569px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"LEFT\"><em>Ms Cathy McGowan AO, MP &amp; Hon Karen Andrews MP\u00a0with the College STEM leaders<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">The MP\u2019s received a student-led tour of the College, focusing on the Trade Training building and it\u2019s facilities and the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering &amp; Mathematics) programs that the College is currently running.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-26887\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/WISTEM1-1024x572.jpg\" alt=\"WISTEM1\" width=\"569\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/WISTEM1-1024x572.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/WISTEM1-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/WISTEM1-465x260.jpg 465w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 569px) 100vw, 569px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"LEFT\"><em>Hon Karen Andrews MP pictured with our Chemistry students<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">The visit followed a Women in STEM Program breakfast meeting this morning, where female STEM students and teachers joined the ministers and other likeminded people from the region. This is the first in a series of regular meetings for women who are currently or potentially studying in the field of STEM.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"LEFT\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-26890\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/C-xf5BYXkAAtG8Hedited-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"WISTEM3\" width=\"568\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/C-xf5BYXkAAtG8Hedited-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/C-xf5BYXkAAtG8Hedited-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/C-xf5BYXkAAtG8Hedited.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><em>Students speaking with Hon Karen Andrews MP\u00a0at the Women in STEM breakfast<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"LEFT\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"LEFT\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-26892\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_7344-1024x615.jpg\" alt=\"WISTEM4\" width=\"562\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_7344-1024x615.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_7344-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_7344-190x115.jpg 190w, https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_7344-100x60.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Technology teacher Scott Nugent speaks about the programs being implemented at the College<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The College was fortunate enough to have the honourable Karen Andrews MP, Assistant Minister for Vocational Education and Skills and Ms Cathy McGowan AO, MP,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26880"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26893,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26880\/revisions\/26893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}