{"id":463,"date":"2015-03-29T15:54:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T15:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/?p=463"},"modified":"2015-04-10T02:37:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T02:37:53","slug":"russ-megan-and-rachel-win-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/?p=463","title":{"rendered":"Russ:  Megan and Rachel win big"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-465\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Meghan2015-web.jpg\" alt=\"Meghan2015-web\" width=\"700\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Meghan2015-web.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Meghan2015-web-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/>The whirlwind of the past couple days capped off nicely with Megan and Rachel taking home prizes for innovation in research. Megan&#8217;s 2,000 Yuan prize ($322 USD) was sponsored by the Beijing University of Technology. Rachel&#8217;s 2,000 Yuan prize was sponsored by the Beijing University of Science and Technology.<\/p>\n<p>Rachael and Peter also took a second place general prize for foreign participants.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-464\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/RandM-win-web.jpg\" alt=\"RandM-win-web\" width=\"700\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/RandM-win-web.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/RandM-win-web-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The closing ceremony was a lavish and lively production featuring dancers, music, and traditional Chinese shadow puppet theater. The emcee for the evening was a famous Chinese children television celebrity.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-466\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/famousguy-2015-web.jpg\" alt=\"famousguy-2015-web\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/famousguy-2015-web.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/famousguy-2015-web-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/>There&#8217;s more awards coming tomorrow so this ball game isn&#8217;t over yet.<\/p>\n<p>Update: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimesnews.com\/news\/top-news\/around-the-schools-student-honored-by-beijing-youth-science-creation-challenge-1.458449\">Burlington Times-News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The whirlwind of the past couple days capped off nicely with Megan and Rachel taking home prizes for innovation in research. Megan&#8217;s 2,000 Yuan prize ($322 USD) was sponsored by the Beijing University of Technology. Rachel&#8217;s 2,000 Yuan prize was sponsored by the Beijing University of Science and Technology. Rachael &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[77,15,16,70,19,76,85,66],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beijing-2015","tag-awards","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-nc","tag-ncisc","tag-north-carolina-international-science-competition","tag-russ","tag-students","column","threecol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","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=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}