{"id":97,"date":"2022-09-26T12:22:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T12:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engsoc.queensu.ca\/robogals\/?page_id=97"},"modified":"2022-11-05T03:37:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T03:37:13","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.engsoc.queensu.ca\/robogals\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull is-light has-parallax\" style=\"min-height:100vh;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\"><\/span><div role=\"img\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-98 has-parallax\" style=\"background-position:50% 50%;background-image:url(https:\/\/www.engsoc.queensu.ca\/robogals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Robogals-Photo-02-resize-and-edit.jpg)\"><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-background-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:70px\"><strong>OUR MISSION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-background-color has-text-color has-larger-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em><em>Inspire, engage, and empower young women to pursue engineering and technology fields of study<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:0px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-primary-color has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Robogals is a volunteer, student-run organization dedicated to increasing female participation in engineering and technology-related studies. We seek to encourage young women to pursue higher education in these fields by running free, educational workshops for students in elementary schools and high schools.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Robogals chapter at Queen\u2019s University has been making a positive impact in the Kingston, Ontario community since 2013. Over the years, we have helped introduce over 700 young women to robotics and engineering. Many of these students have never had the opportunity to play with electronics before, let alone LEGO robots; but after a one-hour workshop with Robogals Queen\u2019s they become completely comfortable with programming the robots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>Girls should never be afraid to be smart<\/p><cite>&#8211; Emma Watson<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robogals is a volunteer, student-run organization dedicated to increasing female participation in engineering and technology-related studies. We seek to encourage young women to pursue higher education in these fields by running free, educational workshops for students in elementary schools and high schools.&nbsp; The Robogals chapter at Queen\u2019s University has been making a positive impact in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-97","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engsoc.queensu.ca\/robogals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engsoc.queensu.ca\/robogals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engsoc.queensu.ca\/robogals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engsoc.queensu.ca\/robogals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engsoc.queensu.ca\/robogals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.engsoc.queensu.ca\/robogals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/www.engsoc.queensu.ca\/robogals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engsoc.queensu.ca\/robogals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}