{"id":244102,"date":"2026-07-15T16:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/244102\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T16:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:42:07","slug":"reading-science-center-receives-10000-city-grant-to-assist-its-sisters-in-stem-program-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/244102\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Science Center receives $10,000 city grant to assist its &#8220;Sisters in STEM\u201d program \u00a0 | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa.- The Reading Science Center received a $10,000 grant from the American Association of University Women\u2019s Reading Branch for its \u201cSisters in STEM\u201d program.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The weekly program features hands-on experiments and connects female STEM professionals to girls in grades four to six to educate them on science and technology, the Reading Science Center said in a news release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThe American Association of University Women and the Reading Science Center share a\u00a0common\u00a0mission to\u00a0expanding\u00a0access to STEM and\u00a0inspiring\u00a0the next generation of girls to explore these\u00a0fields,\u201d Ralia Vardaxis, Reading Science Center\u2019s Executive Director, said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cWe believe that fostering a love of science at an early age is the key to future curiosity,\u00a0innovation\u00a0and academic success.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Reading Science Center is in Downtown Reading\u00a0and is open to the public on Mondays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa.- The Reading Science Center received a $10,000 grant from the American Association of University Women\u2019s Reading&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[104517,92073,15263,146,11753,128,130,129,104516,84186,12041,7666],"class_list":["post-244102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-american-association-of-university-women","tag-downtown-reading","tag-female","tag-grant","tag-program","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-science-center","tag-sisters","tag-stem","tag-weekly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244102","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=244102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}