{"id":825,"date":"2017-09-30T04:22:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T04:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=825"},"modified":"2019-09-10T11:50:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T11:50:38","slug":"184-dr-zara-dennis-scifly-stem-outreach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=825","title":{"rendered":"184 &#8211; Dr Zara Dennis &#8211; SciFly STEM Outreach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s episode I speak to Dr Zara Dennis, who has appeared on the podcast previously.  We catch up on what she&#8217;s been up to since we last spoke, and I talked to her after she<\/p>\n<p>Topics we cover include:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Mixing Zara&#8217;s interest in flying with education<br \/>\n&#8211; What sparked her interest in flying<br \/>\n&#8211; Her piloting career<br \/>\n&#8211; The Growing Teacher Tall Poppies Award<br \/>\n&#8211; The Amazing Spaghetti Machine contest<br \/>\n&#8211; Her collaboration with PrimeSci in providing holiday programmes to children<br \/>\n&#8211; Taking her classes out to remote and rural communities<br \/>\n&#8211; Women in Aviation International&#8217;s involvement in the programme<br \/>\n&#8211; Future extensions to the Sci Fly programme<br \/>\n&#8211; The need to encourage females into STEM subjects<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ia601403.us.archive.org\/14\/items\/ituneslogo_201909\/audio.jpg\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.predictabledata.com\/projects\/brainsmatter\/BM184-FlySci.mp3\">Download MP3 of Ep 184<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The web page of Sci Fly STEM Outreach is:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciflystemoutreach.com.au\/\">http:\/\/www.sciflystemoutreach.com.au\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_xclick&amp;business=brainsmatterinbox%40gmail%2ecom&amp;no_shipping=2&amp;no_note=1&amp;tax=0&amp;currency_code=USD&amp;bn=PP%2dDonationsBF&amp;charset=UTF%2d8\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/x-click-but04.gif\" alt=\"Donate via Paypal\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s episode I speak to Dr Zara Dennis, who has appeared on the podcast previously. We catch up on what she&#8217;s been up to since we last spoke, and I talked to her after she Topics we cover include: &#8211; Mixing Zara&#8217;s interest in flying with education &#8211; What sparked her interest in flying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,14,16,19,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":932,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions\/932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}