{"id":26916,"date":"2026-11-08T00:05:30","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T05:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=26916"},"modified":"2025-12-20T18:08:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T23:08:36","slug":"national-stem-steam-day-is-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=26916","title":{"rendered":"National STEM\/STEAM Day Is Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17133\" style=\"width: 158px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17133\" class=\"wp-image-17133\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Rachel-Carson.jpg\" alt=\"Rachel Carson\" width=\"148\" height=\"187\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel Carson Would Be Proud!<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>National STEM\/STEAM Day is today! <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">STEM<\/span><\/strong> is <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">S<\/span><\/strong>cience, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">T<\/span><\/strong>echnology, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">E<\/span><\/strong>ngineering, and <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">M<\/span><\/strong>ath. Add <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">A<\/span><\/strong>rt and you have <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">STEAM<\/span><\/strong>. This year&#8217;s theme is <em>Food for Thought<\/em>. The Census Bureau has some great statistics: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/newsroom\/stories\/stem-day.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">STEM\/STEAM<\/a>. Ideas combining <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">STEM\/STEAM<\/span><\/strong> and our environment:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Children could sketch a space craft that could vacuum up space debris our space programs have created.<\/li>\n<li>Children could upcycle an empty glass jar into something useful and attractive.<\/li>\n<li>Children could figure out how much trash each person in America creates each day and then figure out how to reduce that amount.<\/li>\n<li>Children could research the life of Rachel Carson, Marie Curie, Ada Lovelace, or another <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">STEM\/STEAM\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">role model<\/span><\/span>\u00a0and share their findings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National STEM\/STEAM Day is today! STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. Add Art and you have STEAM. This year&#8217;s theme is Food for Thought. The Census Bureau has some great statistics: STEM\/STEAM. Ideas combining STEM\/STEAM and our environment: Children could sketch a space craft that could vacuum up space debris our space programs have <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=26916' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6454,3822,6455,6456],"class_list":["post-26916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-national-stem-steam-day","tag-november-8","tag-steam","tag-stem","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26916"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29855,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26916\/revisions\/29855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}