  {"id":8321,"date":"2012-07-27T11:40:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T21:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=8321"},"modified":"2021-03-23T13:35:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T23:35:37","slug":"saturday-gene-iuses-day-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2012\/07\/27\/saturday-gene-iuses-day-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Gene-iuses Day returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_8490\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8490\" style=\"width: 401px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2012\/07\/27\/saturday-gene-iuses-day-returns\/geneius\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/geneius.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"401\" height=\"261\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/geneius.jpg 401w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/geneius-260x169.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;Gene-iuses Day&quot; enjoyed hands-on activities in a laboratory setting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctahr.hawaii.edu\/site\/\">College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resource<\/a> offers Gene-iuses on a Mission events for elementary aged students on 12 Saturdays beginning August 4.<\/p>\n<p>Each Saturday Gene-iuses Mission brings students and their parents onto campus for 2 hours of exciting, engaging activites that encourage scientific thinking and appreciation for all things science related. Each session focuses on a specific science related theme (<abbr>DNA<\/abbr>, cells, forensics, agriculture and much more).<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Gene-ius Day Program was created to teach the concepts of genetics in a fun, easy-to-remember way,&rdquo; said Project leader <strong>Ania Wieczorek<\/strong>. &ldquo;Each Gene-ius event is packed with hands-on experiments and activities that let students experience and enjoy science.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Saturday Gene-iuses sessions are a spin-off from <abbr>CTAHR<\/abbr>&#8217;s original <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctahr.hawaii.edu\/geneius-day\/about.html\">Gene-ius Day<\/a> field trips for elementary schools.<\/p>\n<h2>Gene-iuses on a Mission schedule<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>August 4 and 18 at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.&#8212;Plants to the Rescue<\/li>\n<li>September 15 and October 6 at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.&#8212;DNA Detectives<\/li>\n<li>October 20 and November 17 at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.&#8212;Buzz Off!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reservations are required. Visit Gene-ius Day website to register and pay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resource offers Saturday Gene-iuses on a Mission events for elementary aged students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[212,9],"class_list":["post-8321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-college-of-tropical-agriculture-and-human-resilience","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8321"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137702,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8321\/revisions\/137702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}