{"id":1441,"date":"2012-02-25T12:58:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T17:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2012-02-25T12:58:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T17:58:07","slug":"kids-learn-what-to-put-in-an-emergency-backpack-at-weatherfest-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/2012\/02\/kids-learn-what-to-put-in-an-emergency-backpack-at-weatherfest-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids learn what to put in an emergency backpack at WeatherFest 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1440\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1440\" style=\"width: 316px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/2012\/02\/kids-learn-what-to-put-in-an-emergency-backpack-at-weatherfest-2012\/img_4250\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1440\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1440 \" title=\"IMG_4250\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2012\/01\/IMG_4250-316x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"316\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1440\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NSSL&#8217;s Keli Tarp helps kids pack a weather emergency backpack<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>More than 3,000 people crowded the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, La. for the American Meteorological Society&#8217;s &#8220;WeatherFest&#8221; on January 22, 2012. \u00a0WeatherFest is an interactive four-hour science and weather fair designed to inspire children and youth to pursue a career in the sciences. \u00a0It is also a chance for closet weather fanatics to share their passion and learn more.<\/p>\n<p>NSSL&#8217;s booth was staffed by NSSL&#8217;s Keli Tarp and NSSL\/CIMMS Daphne Thompson and Susan Cobb with visits by the &#8220;Weather Friends&#8221; known as &#8220;Tempest&#8221; and &#8220;Swirl Girl&#8221;. \u00a0Visitors could watch videos about NSSL research, collect Weather Friends trading cards, make a tornado in a bottle, and think through filling an disaster backpack with emergency supplies. \u00a0Other handouts available included weather word searches, a weather maze, a reinforcing &#8220;fill the backpack,&#8221; along with information on NSSL and careers in meteorology.<\/p>\n<p>This was the 11th year of WeatherFest, and the seventh year NSSL has sponsored a booth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 3,000 people crowded the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, La. for the American Meteorological Society&#8217;s &#8220;WeatherFest&#8221; on January 22, 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":1440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[34,247,525],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outreach","tag-ams","tag-issue-winter-2012","tag-weatherfest"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}