{"id":1341,"date":"2012-05-16T11:21:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T23:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2012-05-16T11:21:31","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T23:21:31","slug":"science-idol-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/science-idol-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Idol &#8211; 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifest.org.nz\/competitions\/science-idol-2012\">http:\/\/www.scifest.org.nz\/competitions\/science-idol-2012<\/a><\/p>\n<p>US science rapper Tom McFadden is hitting the road from 20th May on his New Zealand tour \u2013 visiting schools from Auckland to Dunedin thanks to support from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newzealand.usembassy.gov\">US Embassy<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.klablab.com\">Klablab<\/a>. Science Idol is a way of sharing Tom\u2019s contagious passion for biology, rap, and making science fun.<br \/>\nGet involved and enter your own science rap, and you could win a trip to Dunedin for you and a guardian to get your rap professionally recorded &#8211; just pick a topic that has something to do with &#8220;what makes us tick?&#8221; and then get all creative!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll update you on how to enter soon, so keep updated by signing up for the<a href=\"\/\"> newsletter <\/a>or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nzscifest\">facebook <\/a>site<br \/>\nYour song can be rap, pop, or punk. It can be an original or a cover. Perform it by yourself or with a group. Not feeling musical? It can even be spoken word.<br \/>\nGet scientific, get creative and have fun! As long as your performance is accurate, entertaining and conveys a scientific concept, you are good to go.<br \/>\nIf you still have more questions &#8211; contact us at <a href=\"mailto:programmes@scifest.org.nz\">programmes@scifest.org.nz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.scifest.org.nz\/competitions\/science-idol-2012 US science rapper Tom McFadden is hitting the road from 20th May on his New Zealand tour \u2013 visiting schools from Auckland to Dunedin thanks to support from the US Embassy and Klablab. Science Idol is a way of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/science-idol-2012\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5731,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5731"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}