{"id":14808,"date":"2025-11-24T15:57:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/?p=14808"},"modified":"2025-12-08T10:50:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T15:50:17","slug":"visitors-hear-about-college-majors-research-at-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/sans-monthly-digest\/visitors-hear-about-college-majors-research-at-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Visitors hear about college majors, research at fair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/\">School of Agricultural and Natural Sciences<\/a> hosted more than 80 high school students visiting the University of Maryland Eastern Shore Nov. 20 as part of a college fair. During a portion of the event organized by <a href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/extension\/4-h-youth-development\/\">UMES Extension 4-H STEM<\/a>, the prospective students learned directly from UMES undergraduates, club members and faculty about college majors, research opportunities and campus involvement among other topics. 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During a portion of the event organized by UMES Extension 4-H STEM, the prospective students learned directly from UMES undergraduates, club members and faculty about college&#8230;<span class=\"cpschool-read-more-link-holder\"><a class=\"btn btn-basic cpschool-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/sans-monthly-digest\/visitors-hear-about-college-majors-research-at-fair\/\">Read more <span class=\"sr-only\">Visitors hear about college majors, research at fair<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":40,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,40],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-14808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-december-2025","category-sans-monthly-digest"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14808"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=14808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}