{"id":1681,"date":"2024-09-13T05:53:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T12:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2024-09-12T14:55:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T21:55:21","slug":"counting-the-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/counting-the-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Counting the Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/09.24QT800x800.png?resize=525%2C525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"525\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22542\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My new <em>Focus on STEM<\/em> column, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Focus-on-STEM-Counting-the-Vote-\/pid=9801323\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Counting the Vote<\/a><\/em>, is in the September <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/quick-tips-for-schools-and-libraries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries<\/a><\/em> newsletter from <em>Booklist<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-889\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/stemfriday.tiny_.jpg?resize=216%2C104\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"104\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/\">STEM Friday!<\/a> (<strong>STEM<\/strong> is <strong>S<\/strong>cience, <strong>T<\/strong>echnology, <strong>E<\/strong>ngineering, and <strong>M<\/strong>athematics)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new Focus on STEM column, Counting the Vote, is in the September Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries newsletter from Booklist. It&#8217;s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Copyright \u00a9 2024 Anastasia Suen All Rights Reserved. .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem-friday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pamhGQ-r7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1737,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/counting-winter\/","url_meta":{"origin":1681,"position":0},"title":"Counting Winter","author":"Anastasia Suen","date":"January 10, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Counting Winter by Nancy White Carlstrom (Author) and Claudia McGehee (Illustrator) @ Amazon | Bookshop Booktalk: This lyrical counting book celebrates the rhythms of the tundra and its inhabitants during winter. 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