{"id":425,"date":"2015-03-24T16:53:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T16:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/?p=425"},"modified":"2015-03-24T16:54:18","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T16:54:18","slug":"russ-observe-with-abandon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/?p=425","title":{"rendered":"Russ: Observe with Abandon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hum of the plane; the sounds of beats dropping out of nearby headphones \u2013 we are 32,000 feet in the air and midway through the first leg of the 2015 NC International Science Challenge&#8217;s trip to Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>I am usually on the other side, at my desk, receiving updates, posting them to the blog, and not-so-secretly wishing I could play a role.\u00a0 This year thanks to the SMT Center, I&#8217;ll be playing the role of scribe and publishing a scrapbook of the previous 10 trips the NCISC has taken over the past decade.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always been of the mind that the journey is just as, if not more, important than the destination.\u00a0 We still have quite a journey ahead of us.\u00a0 The students huddled together at RDU, their youthful chatter inspired me to relax my thinking and observe with abandon.<\/p>\n<p>And, the excitement continued to build in this photo during a brief stop in Detroit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/DetroitStop-700x350-03242015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-426 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/DetroitStop-700x350-03242015.jpg\" alt=\"DetroitStop-700x350-03242015\" width=\"700\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/DetroitStop-700x350-03242015.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/DetroitStop-700x350-03242015-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More to come \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hum of the plane; the sounds of beats dropping out of nearby headphones \u2013 we are 32,000 feet in the air and midway through the first leg of the 2015 NC International Science Challenge&#8217;s trip to Beijing. I am usually on the other side, at my desk, receiving updates, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,57],"tags":[59,60,62,19,13,61],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beijing-2015","category-meet-the-2015-scholars","tag-2015-scholars","tag-beijing-2015","tag-education","tag-ncisc","tag-north-carolina","tag-stem","column","threecol","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}