  {"id":20973,"date":"2020-10-02T13:58:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T17:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=20973"},"modified":"2020-10-02T13:58:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T17:58:46","slug":"nsf-blog-features-conversation-with-darren-ranco-and-tish-carr-about-ways-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2020\/10\/02\/nsf-blog-features-conversation-with-darren-ranco-and-tish-carr-about-ways-program\/","title":{"rendered":"NSF blog features conversation with Darren Ranco and tish carr about WaYS program"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"20974\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20974\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2020\/10\/Bark-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2020\/10\/Bark-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2020\/10\/Bark-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2020\/10\/Bark-105x79.jpg 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2020\/10\/Bark-317x238.jpg 317w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2020\/10\/Bark-423x317.jpg 423w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2020\/10\/Bark-634x476.jpg 634w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2020\/10\/Bark-846x635.jpg 846w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2020\/10\/Bark-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2020\/10\/Bark.jpg 893w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,209px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Wabanaki Youth in Science (WaYS) program<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The National Science Foundation (NSF) INCLUDES Network recently featured a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.includesnetwork.org\/blogs\/jenna-rush1\/2020\/09\/16\/wabanaki-youth-science-ways-program-connects-nativ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">conversation<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/people\/darren-ranco\/\">Darren Ranco<\/a>, tish carr and John Neptune about the <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/nativeamericanprograms\/wabanaki-youth-science-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wabanaki Youth in Science (WaYS) program<\/a> at 91±¬ΑΟ.<\/p>\n<p>Darren is chair of Native American Programs, and an associate professor in anthropology and at the Mitchell Center. tish is program manager for WaYS and collaborates with Darren on the Mitchell Center project,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/road-to-solutions\/pathways-and-barriers-to-weaving-indigenous-science-with-western-science\/\">\u201cPathways and Barriers to Weaving Indigenous Science with Western Science.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The WaYS program facilitates Wabanaki student engagement\u00a0in STEM fields, especially environmental science,\u00a0through culture and heritage.\u00a0The program, which began in 2012, has evolved into a collaboration between 91±¬ΑΟ, the U.S. Forest Service, Wabanaki tribes and Native American high school students across the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Science Foundation (NSF) INCLUDES Network recently featured a conversation with Darren Ranco, tish carr and John Neptune about the Wabanaki Youth in Science (WaYS) program at 91±¬ΑΟ. Darren is chair of Native American Programs, and an associate professor in anthropology and at the Mitchell Center. tish is program manager for WaYS and collaborates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1706,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":614,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":614,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20973"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20981,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20973\/revisions\/20981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}