{"id":17689,"date":"2011-01-11T00:47:30","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T16:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/media-release\/indigenous-australian-engineering-summer-school-at-curtin-2\/"},"modified":"2011-01-11T00:47:30","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T16:47:30","slug":"indigenous-australian-engineering-summer-school-at-curtin-2","status":"publish","type":"media-release","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/media-release\/indigenous-australian-engineering-summer-school-at-curtin-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous Australian Engineering Summer School at Curtin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Curtin University is hosting an Indigenous Australian Engineering Summer School (IAESS) this week, from 10-15 January.<\/p>\n<p>Held at Curtin\u2019s Bentley campus, the program is now in its second year following the success of last year\u2019s program.<\/p>\n<p>IAESS aims to give Indigenous Year 11 and 12 students an insight into university life and pursuing engineering as a career.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty students from across Australia will live at Curtin\u2019s Bentley campus and take part in the six-day program, which includes talks by visiting engineering companies, site visits to major local projects and engineering operations, and taking part in hands-on engineering activities on campus.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights of the Summer School Program include:<\/p>\n<p>Radio Astronomy Talk (Tues 11 Jan, 4pm \u2013 5pm)<\/p>\n<p>Mechatronic Engineering Program and Run Robots (Wed 12 Jan, 1pm \u2013 4pm)<\/p>\n<p>Graduation Dinner at Hyatt Regency, with guests Jeff McMullen and Major General Philip Michael Jeffery AC, CVO, MC (Fri 14 Jan, 5.30pm \u2013 10pm)<\/p>\n<p>Media are invited. Please\u00a0 make contact to organise interview, photo and video opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Media Contact:<\/p>\n<p>Andrea Barnard, Public Relations, Curtin University<br \/>\nTel: 08 9266 4241, Mobile: 0401 103 755, Email: <a href=\"mailto:andrea.barnard@curtin.edu.au\">andrea.barnard@curtin.edu.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curtin University is hosting an Indigenous Australian Engineering Summer School (IAESS) this week, from 10-15 January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4275,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-17689","media-release","type-media-release","status-publish","hentry","category-campus-and-global-community"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":false,"credits":{"author":"","photographer":"","media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":false,"author_meta":{"first_name":"Curtin","last_name":"University","display_name":"Curtin University"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/17689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/media-release"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/17689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17689"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=17689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}