{"id":4468,"date":"2012-01-25T10:50:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T15:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=4468"},"modified":"2012-01-25T10:50:58","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T15:50:58","slug":"stem-students-and-programs-focus-of-university-of-south-florida-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/01\/25\/stem-students-and-programs-focus-of-university-of-south-florida-study\/","title":{"rendered":"STEM Students And Programs Focus of University of South Florida Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4469\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"University of South Florida students work on a high-tech project. A USF professor is studying STEM programs and students.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/01\/USFRobotics.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4469\" title=\"USFRobotics\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/01\/USFRobotics-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/01\/USFRobotics-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/01\/USFRobotics-220x123.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/01\/USFRobotics.jpg 356w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">USF University Communications and Marketing<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">University of South Florida students work on a high-tech project. A USF professor is studying STEM programs and students.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>University of South Florida professor Will Tyson recently won a $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant to study science, technology, engineering and math education, known as STEM.<\/p>\n<p>STEM is a hot topic in education circles as policy makers try to figure out ways to produce more graduates with high-tech skills necessary for a transforming economy.Gov. Rick Scott has said Florida&#8217;s universities should retool their programs to produce more STEM graduates.<\/p>\n<p>Tyson&#8217;s study will look at how STEM students developed their interest and then track their school and career performance.<\/p>\n<p>WUSF&#8217;s Mark Schreiner spoke with Tyson about his study and what he hopes to learn.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of South Florida professor Will Tyson recently won a $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant to study science, technology, engineering and math education, known as STEM. STEM is a hot topic in education circles as policy makers try to figure out ways to produce more graduates with high-tech skills necessary for a transforming economy.Gov. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":4469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1081,1027,1082,1110],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4476,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4468\/revisions\/4476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}