{"id":606,"date":"2016-03-24T19:42:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T19:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/?p=606"},"modified":"2016-03-24T19:42:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T19:42:05","slug":"tom-ready-set-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/?p=606","title":{"rendered":"Tom- Ready, Set, Go!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-589\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Tom-Professional--150x150.png\" alt=\"Tom Williams\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>In less than 48 hours, I know my perspective on the world is about to change &#8211; big time!\u00a0\u00a0I am so incredibly honored to serve as one of the adult delegates of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/?page_id=4\">NC International Science Challenge (NCISC)<\/a>\u00a0at the 36th\u00a0Beijing Youth Science Creation Competition on March 25-27, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>As I so vividly recall my high school baseball coach telling me, &#8220;Success is when preparation meets opportunity!&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0For me, this experience is the result of two things happening.\u00a0\u00a0First, four incredibly talented and focused North Carolina high school students have realized the core of Coach Carroll&#8217;s foundation for success, preparation.\u00a0\u00a0Secondly, and of equal significance in the equation, a phenomenal opportunity has been created by the invitation from the Beijing Youth Science Creation Competition and the North Carolina Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education Center to serve as the hosts, catalysts, and sponsors for this international showcase of student research and innovation.<\/p>\n<p>To our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/?cat=89\">NCISC Scholars:\u00a0\u00a0Holly Ren, Nimit Desai, Jonathon Kuo, and Rohan Deshpande<\/a>, congratulations on this most recent success and I am thrilled to be joining you in Beijing for what promises to be an exciting and inspirational experience.\u00a0\u00a0I appreciate the commitment to excellence you bring to this competition as well as the spirit of collaboration and high personal integrity in representing the USA and North Carolina!\u00a0 Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In less than 48 hours, I know my perspective on the world is about to change &#8211; big time!\u00a0\u00a0I am so incredibly honored to serve as one of the adult delegates of the\u00a0NC International Science Challenge (NCISC)\u00a0at the 36th\u00a0Beijing Youth Science Creation Competition on March 25-27, 2016. As I so &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[15,94,19,76],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beijing-2016","tag-beijing","tag-beijing-2016","tag-ncisc","tag-north-carolina-international-science-competition","column","threecol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","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=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}