{"id":69201,"date":"2016-12-13T19:43:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T11:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ula-backs-stellarxplorers-stem-program\/"},"modified":"2016-12-13T19:43:27","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T11:43:27","slug":"ula-backs-stellarxplorers-stem-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ula-backs-stellarxplorers-stem-program\/","title":{"rendered":"ULA Backs StellarXplorers STEM Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 12-13-2016] <strong>United Launch Alliance <\/strong>(ULA) has signed on as the newest sponsor of the Air Force Association\u2019s <strong>StellarXplorers<\/strong> Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) program. StellarXplorers seeks to inspire and attract high school students to pursue studies and careers in STEM fields through a challenging, space system design competition involving all aspects of system development and operation with a spacecraft\/payload focus.<\/p>\n<p>ULA\u2019s sponsorship includes a dinner for the national finalists, designation as the official travel sponsor, and funding for the StellarXplorers III winners. ULA will provide airfare for the ten teams traveling for the national finals in 2017 and 2018. Additionally, ULA will provide cash awards for each student on the national champion team, as well as awards to the second and third place teams for StellarXplorers III.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are so pleased to join StellarXplorers in helping them achieve their goal of inspiring the future generation,\u201d said ULA President and CEO Tory Bruno. \u201cOur top community focus is science, technology, engineering and math education, as the students today will be the rocket scientists driving the innovations of tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 12-13-2016] United Launch Alliance (ULA) has signed on as the newest sponsor of the Air Force Association\u2019s StellarXplorers Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) program. StellarXplorers seeks to inspire and attract high school students to pursue studies and careers in STEM fields through a challenging, space system design competition involving all aspects of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}