{"id":135808,"date":"2026-03-11T21:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T21:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/135808\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T21:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T21:16:07","slug":"johnson-college-hosts-girls-on-fire-stem-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/135808\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson College hosts &#8216;Girls on Fire&#8217; STEM event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johnson College in Scranton hosted its inaugural \u201cGirls on Fire\u201d STEM initiative Wednesday, with more than 90 students from Old Forge, Tunkhannock Area and Susquehanna Community school districts participating in hands-on workshops in electronic engineering, architectural drafting and design, electrical construction, HVAC and carpentry. The event also included a panel of female industry speakers and a campus tour.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Susquehanna Community Elementary School sixth-grade students Harper Dubas, Fiona Carpenter, Aubrey Dran and Gabrielle Carpenter work on an electrical wiring project during the Girls on Fire STEM event at Johnson College in Scranton Wednesday, March 11, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\" width=\"2400\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/STT-L-STEM-CAPST-0312-04.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1575917\" \/>Susquehanna Community Elementary School sixth-grade students Harper Dubas, Fiona Carpenter, Aubrey Dran and Gabrielle Carpenter work on an electrical wiring project during the Girls on Fire STEM event at Johnson College in Scranton Wednesday, March 11, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Karina Stone, sixth-grade student at Susquehanna Community Elementary School, uses a drill press to make a candel holder during the Girls on Fire STEM event at Johnson College in Scranton Wednesday, March 11, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\" width=\"2400\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/STT-L-STEM-CAPST-0312-03.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1575918\" \/>Karina Stone, sixth-grade student at Susquehanna Community Elementary School, uses a drill press to make a candel holder during the Girls on Fire STEM event at Johnson College in Scranton Wednesday, March 11, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Old Forge eighth-grade student Luciana Metzger uses a dril press to make a candle holder during the Girls on Fire STEM event at Johnson College in Scranton Wednesday, March 11, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\" width=\"2400\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/STT-L-STEM-CAPST-0312-02.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1575919\" \/>Old Forge eighth-grade student Luciana Metzger uses a dril press to make a candle holder during the Girls on Fire STEM event at Johnson College in Scranton Wednesday, March 11, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Johnson College in Scranton hosted its inaugural \u201cGirls on Fire\u201d STEM initiative Wednesday, with more than 90 students&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[227,201,182,139,28,178,180,179,181,2943],"class_list":["post-135808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-education","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt","tag-wyoming-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}