{"id":28364,"date":"2025-07-03T13:50:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T17:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=28364"},"modified":"2025-07-03T13:53:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T17:53:23","slug":"health-science-technology-academy-hsta-institute-begins-this-weekend-at-marshall-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2025\/07\/health-science-technology-academy-hsta-institute-begins-this-weekend-at-marshall-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Science Technology Academy (HSTA) Institute begins this weekend at Marshall University"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Health Science Technology Academy (HSTA) Fun with Science Institute at Marshall University kicks off this holiday weekend at Marshall University.<\/p>\n<p>HSTA is a statewide initiative that helps high school students with an interest in STEM fields thrive in high school and college. The following hands-on activities are a few of the activities scheduled:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Physics Demonstration, 1 &#8211; 5 p.m. Monday, July 7, in Room 227 of the Science Building<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Gaming, 1-5 p.m. Monday, July 7, in Room 1104 of the Engineering Building, Weisberg Applied Engineering Complex (WAEC)<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Suturing Lab, 1 &#8211; 5 p.m. on Tuesday, July 8, in Room 212 of the Science Building<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Robotics Competition, 8:30 &#8211; 11 a.m. Thursday, July 10, in Room 1103 of the WAEC<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Disaster Relief Simulation, 1 &#8211; 5 p.m. Thursday, July 10, in Rooms 2121 and 1104 of the WAEC.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Doctor Rounds, 6 &#8211; 8 p.m. Thursday, July 10, John Marshall Room, Memorial Student Center, 6-8 PM<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s expected that 84 rising nineth-graders from all over West Virginia, eight teachers and assistants, three HSTA field site coordinators and nine college students as resident counselors will attend the week&#8217;s events.<\/p>\n<p>An awards luncheon is set from 11 a.m. till 1 p.m. Friday, July 11, in the John Marshall Room in the Memorial Student Center.<\/p>\n<p>Media note: Reporters are welcome to cover these events.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Health Science Technology Academy (HSTA) Fun with Science Institute at Marshall University kicks off this holiday weekend at Marshall University. HSTA is a statewide initiative that helps high school students with an interest in STEM fields thrive in high school and college. The following hands-on activities are a few of the activities scheduled: \u00b7 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,42,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cecs","category-cos","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28364"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28370,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28364\/revisions\/28370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}