  {"id":28253,"date":"2014-10-10T14:08:54","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T00:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=28253"},"modified":"2021-10-25T11:29:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T21:29:55","slug":"leeward-discovery-fair-features-hands-on-family-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/10\/10\/leeward-discovery-fair-features-hands-on-family-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeward Discovery Fair features hands-on family fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_28274\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28274\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/lcc-discovery-fair-1.jpg\" alt=\"children playing with clay\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/lcc-discovery-fair-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/lcc-discovery-fair-1-260x173.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28274\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leeward <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr> Discovery Fair participants experiment with hands-on clay sculpting and more.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leeward.hawaii.edu\/leewarddiscoveryfair\">Discovery Fair<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leeward.hawaii.edu\/\">Leeward Community College<\/a> offers a family-oriented day of engaging educational exhibits, carnival games, food booths, entertainment and a variety of Safe Communities activities and information. The fair will take place on Saturday, November 1, 9 a.m.&#8211;3 p.m. on the Pearl City campus. Admission and parking are free.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights include more than 50 bustling hands-on learning activities for the entire family. For the third year in a row, the fair also features informative activities from <a href=\"http:\/\/labor.hawaii.gov\/ocs\/weed-and-seed-program\/\">Weed and Seed <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span><\/a> and Safe Communities Day. Fair partipants can meet <abbr>HPD<\/abbr>&#8217;s trained dogs, fight virtual fires and explore a variety of emergency vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Returning crowd-favorites include Leeward 5-0, a mock crime scene investigation; Quicksand Goo, a mysterious substance that&#8217;s both solid and liquid; Mad Hatter, creating wearable hats from recycled materials; BONES, a forensic puzzle waiting to be solved; and the Dollar Book Sale.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/lcc-discovery-fair-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/lcc-discovery-fair-2.jpg\" alt=\"L C C discovery fair\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/lcc-discovery-fair-2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/lcc-discovery-fair-2-260x146.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Additional Discovery Fair offerings include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bug City: a close up look and feel of the creepy, crawly insect world<\/li>\n<li>Polymer Worms: squiggle, squeeze and turn liquids into solids<\/li>\n<li>Instant Snow: make snow magically appear<\/li>\n<li>Chemistry Magic: freeze a flower or shrink a balloon with liquid nitrogen<\/li>\n<li>Rockets: create and launch your personalized rocket<\/li>\n<li>Galactic Games: a galaxy of carnival games<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&ldquo;This unique partnership between Leeward Community College and Weed and Seed <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> is wonderful, as we work together to make education fun for the youth and their families,&rdquo; said <strong>Manny Cabral<\/strong>, chancellor of Leeward Community College.<\/p>\n<p>Entry to this event is free, however, some games and activities will have nominal fees.<\/p>\n<p>Go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leeward.hawaii.edu\/leewarddiscoveryfair\">Leeward Community College Discovery Day website <\/a> for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leeward <abbr>CC<\/abbr>&#8217;s annual Discovery Fair offers a family day full of interactive exhibits, carnival games, food booths, entertainment and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-28253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-leeward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28253"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150425,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28253\/revisions\/150425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}