{"id":61062,"date":"2013-05-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uris-smile-program-gets-kids-excited-about-college-while-they-make-new-friends-from-across-r-i\/"},"modified":"2013-05-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T00:00:00","slug":"uris-smile-program-gets-kids-excited-about-college-while-they-make-new-friends-from-across-r-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2013\/05\/uris-smile-program-gets-kids-excited-about-college-while-they-make-new-friends-from-across-r-i\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s SMILE program gets kids excited about college while they make new friends from across R.I."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 2, 2013 \u2013 Building model space ships, solar-powered cars and hydraulic cranes would probably be exciting activities for many people, but the elementary, middle and high school students who come to the 溏心vlog免费B站 every year for engineering challenge days become engaged and inspired young scientists.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eJ1Ov7V6nMI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nNinety pre-teens came together to build model wind turbines for this year\u2019s Middle School Engineering Challenge Weekend, all while smiling with newfound friends. The teams of students gelled quickly as if they were best friends, even though many of them had only met a few hours beforehand.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe event is hosted by The Science and Math Investigative Learning Experiences (SMILE) Program, which helps underrepresented students learn more about the \u201cSTEM\u201d subjects\u2014science, technology, engineering and math. <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nStudents can join the program as early as fourth grade and continue through high school.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe SMILE program was established in 1994 with 20 middle school students from one school. More than 2,000 students have participated in 溏心vlog免费B站 SMILE in the past 19 years. Today, the program serves about 400 elementary, middle, and high school students from six school districts throughout the state. Since 1998, 145 SMILE alumni have enrolled at 溏心vlog免费B站\u201475 of whom are current students\u2014and more than 70 percent of them have pursued STEM majors.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cI think one of the most rewarding aspects is, for kids who are in SMILE one year or more, every one of them graduates from high school,\u201d said Carol Englander, founder and director of The SMILE Program in Rhode Island.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe program incorporates professional and University mentors to help support younger students and teach them about future career paths. One of these students is Jimmy Li, who is studying electrical engineering and Chinese at 溏心vlog免费B站. The West Warwick, R.I. resident participated in the SMILE program during all four years of high school, and when he enrolled at 溏心vlog免费B站, began mentoring middle and high school students in the program. He recently started Collegiate SMILE, a student organization on campus that encourages SMILE alumni from elementary, middle and high schools to continue the program at 溏心vlog免费B站.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThis year\u2019s challenge weekend kicked off March 1 in 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Memorial Union ballroom. It hosted students from Central Falls, Pawtucket, South Kingstown, West Warwick and Woonsocket.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThis press release was written by Danielle Sanda, an intern in 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Department of Marketing and Communications and a public relations major.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 2, 2013 \u2013 Building model space ships, solar-powered cars and hydraulic cranes would probably be exciting activities for many people, but the elementary, middle and high school students who come to the 溏心vlog免费B站 every year for engineering challenge days become engaged and inspired young scientists. &#13; Ninety pre-teens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}