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My new Focus on STEM<\/em> column, Our Amazing Earth<\/a><\/em>, is in the March Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries<\/a><\/em> newsletter from Booklist<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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It’s STEM Friday!<\/a> (STEM<\/strong> is S<\/strong>cience, T<\/strong>echnology, E<\/strong>ngineering, and M<\/strong>athematics)<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2025 Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My new Focus on STEM column, Our Amazing Earth, is in the March Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries newsletter from Booklist. It’s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Copyright \u00a9 2025 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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1772","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-sA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1252,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/amazing-animals\/","url_meta":{"origin":1772,"position":0},"title":"Amazing Animals","author":"Anastasia Suen","date":"April 8, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"My new Focus on STEM column, Amazing Animals, is in the April Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries newsletter. 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