{"id":903,"date":"2018-03-26T14:58:43","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T14:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/?p=903"},"modified":"2018-03-27T14:39:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T14:39:39","slug":"903","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/?p=903","title":{"rendered":"Robin &#8211; Update from Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-904 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/P10301403.JPG-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/P10301403.JPG-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/P10301403.JPG-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/P10301403.JPG-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/P10301403.JPG-700x525.jpeg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>March 23<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Fran and I met the other members of the US Delegation after their arrival to the Detroit Airport.\u00a0 Everyone took care of last minute needs (getting something to eat, seat assignments, etc.) before boarding the plane.\u00a0 Long flight ahead&#8230;will try to be as rested as possible when we get to the other side.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>March 24<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We&#8217;re here&#8230;the plane landed about 3:20 pm.\u00a0 Everone did a great job making it through the long flight.\u00a0 After picking up our luggage and going through customs, the student interpreters welcomed us before taking us to the conference hotel &#8230; about an hour from the airport to the hotel.\u00a0 They will get us checked in and ready for the event.\u00a0 Posters will go up tomorrow morning. Time change and most are ready to get to be bed in preparation for the big day.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif;\">March 25<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif;\">Up early (couldn&#8217;t sleep) and met other members of the team for breakfast.\u00a0 Everyone business dress&#8230;Students off to display\/present their research, Marti off to judge her group of students, and Caroline, Fran and I were involved in the teacher symposium.\u00a0 At the symposium, we were provided with headphone and the science presentations were translated for us.\u00a0 All back for lunch&#8230;more judging and a visit to the film base of Huairou before dinner.\u00a0 \u00a0Tonight is the welcome dinner for foreign guests.\u00a0 BAST stresses collaboration and innovative science at the start of the BYSCC.\u00a0 Long day for students and adults.\u00a0 Hope to get some sleep.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 23 Fran and I met the other members of the US Delegation after their arrival to the Detroit Airport.\u00a0 Everyone took care of last minute needs (getting something to eat, seat assignments, etc.) before boarding the plane.\u00a0 Long flight ahead&#8230;will try to be as rested as possible when we &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[131,100],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beijing-2018","tag-beijing-2018","tag-robin-bergeron","column","threecol","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","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=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}