{"id":14,"date":"2024-08-16T21:26:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T21:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/region.youthscience.ca\/hste\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2024-09-24T15:40:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T19:40:53","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/region.youthscience.ca\/hste\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Halifax Sci-Tech Expo Association&nbsp;is a not-for-profit organization. &nbsp;The purpose of the Association is to organize and administer the Regional Science Fair (Halifax Sci-Tech Expo \u2013 HSTE) for students from public and independent schools within HRM in grade 7-12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students usually compete in school-based science fairs where they are selected to attend the Regional Science Fair (HSTE). \u00a0At the regional level they are judged in grade-level categories and compete for various cash prizes and scholarships as well as the opportunity to attend the annual Canada Wide Science Fair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Our Organizing Committee<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Chair &#8211; Matthew Murphy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Treasurer &#8211; Alexander MacDougall<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ethics &#8211; Wes LeBlanc<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chief Judge &#8211; Julia Sarty<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Registration &#8211; Alexander MacDougall<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Other Committee Memebers &#8211; Sarah Kuehm, Heather Donovan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Halifax Sci-Tech Expo Association&nbsp;is a not-for-profit organization. &nbsp;The purpose of the Association is to organize and administer the Regional Science Fair (Halifax Sci-Tech Expo \u2013 HSTE) for students from public and independent schools within HRM in grade 7-12. Students usually compete in school-based science fairs where they are selected to attend the Regional Science [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/region.youthscience.ca\/hste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/region.youthscience.ca\/hste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/region.youthscience.ca\/hste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/region.youthscience.ca\/hste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/region.youthscience.ca\/hste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/region.youthscience.ca\/hste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"https:\/\/region.youthscience.ca\/hste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/region.youthscience.ca\/hste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}