{"id":1853,"date":"2017-07-10T13:46:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T13:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1853"},"modified":"2017-07-10T13:49:09","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T13:49:09","slug":"childrens-center-finds-home-in-loudoun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1853","title":{"rendered":"Science Center finds home in Loudoun"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1855\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1855\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/101.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1855\" src=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/101-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/101-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/101-768x645.jpg 768w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/101-1024x861.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/101-1200x1008.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/101.jpg 1604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1855\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">8-year-old Ananya demonstrates her invention, a &#8220;rolling aquarium,&#8221; which she created in the Children&#8217;s Science Center&#8217;s Garage.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When visitors enter the Children\u2019s Science Center, they are greeted by two distinct sides of the small museum.<\/p>\n<p>To the left is the Experiment Bar, where children conduct science experiments, assisted by family members, staff members and volunteers. To the right, mounted on the wall, is an enormous periodic table of elements showing the names of the museum\u2019s major benefactors.<\/p>\n<p>The Experiment Bar is one of the most popular features of the center, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/northern-virginias-childrens-science-center-finds-permanent-home-in-loudoun\/2017\/07\/07\/6b771eae-6318-11e7-8adc-fea80e32bf47_story.html?utm_term=.183acc82e797\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">offers interactive scientific activities for children and their families<\/a>. The element wall honors the donors who helped open the center, marketing director Dorothy Ready said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/northern-virginias-childrens-science-center-finds-permanent-home-in-loudoun\/2017\/07\/07\/6b771eae-6318-11e7-8adc-fea80e32bf47_story.html?utm_term=.183acc82e797\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Washington Post<\/em>, July 9, 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When visitors enter the Children\u2019s Science Center, they are greeted by two distinct sides of the small museum. To the left is the Experiment Bar, where children conduct science experiments, assisted by family members, staff members and volunteers. To the right, mounted on the wall, is an enormous periodic table of elements showing the names &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1853\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Science Center finds home in Loudoun&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[48,107,16,124,3,68,6,83,80],"class_list":["post-1853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-development","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-fairfax-county","tag-loudoun-county","tag-nonprofit","tag-schools","tag-science","tag-sterling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1853"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1858,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions\/1858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}