{"id":30324,"date":"2014-04-17T13:52:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T17:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=30324"},"modified":"2014-04-17T13:52:52","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T17:52:52","slug":"fundraiser-to-be-held-to-support-regional-science-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2014\/04\/fundraiser-to-be-held-to-support-regional-science-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundraiser to be Held to Support Regional Science Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fortmyerskiwanis.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1251\" title=\"kiwanis logo\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/kiwanis-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"184\" \/>The Fort Myers Kiwanis Club<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">\u00a0is to hold the\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.koolscienceevent.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">Kool Science Event<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">\u00a0fundraiser on May 8, 2014 from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.edisonfl.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">The Edison<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">\u00a0restaurant located at 3583 McGregor Boulevard in Fort Myers. Proceeds from the event will help to fund the Thomas Alva Edison Kiwanis Science and Engineering Fair<\/span><span style=\"color: #184750;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #184750; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">The\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.koolscienceevent.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">Kool Science Event<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">\u00a0will include buffet dinner and silent auction. Tickets are $58 per person or $464 for a table of eight, and must be purchased in advance at\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.koolscienceevent.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">www.koolscienceevent.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">\u00a0or by contacting\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/lehighacresgazette.com:2095\/cpsess8983817205\/3rdparty\/squirrelmail\/src\/compose.php?send_to=KiwanisDonna@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">kiwanisdonna@gmail.com<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0by\u00a0May 1.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"><!--more--><\/span><a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fortmyerskiwanis.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">The Fort Myers Kiwanis Club<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">\u00a0annually supports the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">Thomas Alva Edison Kiwanis Science and Engineering Fair<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0by providing volunteer staff and fundraising to pay in excess of $15,000 for travel expenses of winners to the state and international competitions, scholarships, trophies and other awards at the local level. The fair is tied to the Edison Festival of Light Celebration, and more than 20,000 middle school and high school students in Lee and Charlotte Counties participate each year.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c<\/span>In addition to learning about their specific project, students learn logic, scientific method, organizational skills, creativity and presentation skills,\u201d said Nathan Fred Shaw of the\u00a0<a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fortmyerskiwanis.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Fort Myers Kiwanis Club<\/span><\/a>, \u201cWe are counting on the public to help support our fundraisers or become a sponsor to keep the fair going for our local students.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fortmyerskiwanis.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">The Fort Myers Kiwanis Club<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">is a community service organization that meets every Wednesday at noon at\u00a0Kiwanis Hall\u00a0located at 2nd Street\u00a0and Woodford Avenue.\u00a0For more information on the\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fortmyerskiwanis.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Fort Myers Kiwanis Club<\/span><\/a>\u00a0or the\u00a0<a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.koolscienceevent.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Kool Science Event<\/span><\/a>, please<span style=\"color: #000000;\">e-mail Nathan Fred Shaw at\u00a0<\/span><\/span><a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/lehighacresgazette.com:2095\/cpsess8983817205\/3rdparty\/squirrelmail\/src\/compose.php?send_to=nathanfmkiwanis@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">nathanfmkiwanis@gmail.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">or call<\/span>\u00a0(<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">239)\u00a0297-1551. To find a Kiwanis club in your area, please contact 2013-2014 Kiwanis Div. 19 Kiwanis Lt. Gov. Trinky Jarrett at\u00a0<\/span><\/span><a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/lehighacresgazette.com:2095\/cpsess8983817205\/3rdparty\/squirrelmail\/src\/compose.php?send_to=trinkyj@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">trinkyj@gmail.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">\u00a0or (239) 745-5455.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fort Myers Kiwanis Club\u00a0is to hold the\u00a0Kool Science Event\u00a0fundraiser on May 8, 2014 from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at\u00a0The Edison\u00a0restaurant located at 3583 McGregor Boulevard in Fort Myers.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}