{"id":313,"date":"2010-01-28T14:51:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T19:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/?p=313"},"modified":"2010-01-28T14:51:33","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T19:51:33","slug":"5000-people-attend-ams-weatherfest-in-atlanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/2010\/01\/5000-people-attend-ams-weatherfest-in-atlanta\/","title":{"rendered":"5,000 people attend AMS WeatherFest in Atlanta"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_314\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-314\" style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-314\" href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/2010\/01\/5000-people-attend-ams-weatherfest-in-atlanta\/2010-wxfest\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-314\" title=\"2010 WxFest\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2010\/01\/2010-WxFest-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daphne Thompson (NSSL\/CIMMS)  speaks with a visitor about NSSL.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Over 5,000 people of all ages crowded through the American Meteorological Society&#8217;s &#8220;WeatherFest&#8221; at the Georgia World Congress Center in downtown Atlanta on January 17, 2010.\u00a0 WeatherFest is an interactive four-hour science and weather fair designed to inspire children and youth to pursue a career in the sciences.<\/p>\n<p>NSSL&#8217;s booth, staffed by Daphne Thompson (NSSL\/CIMMS) and Susan Cobb (NSSL\/CIMMS), featured video from VORTEX2 (the Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment-2), VORTEX2 bookmarks, a tornado in a bottle, and handouts on coloring books and NSSL&#8217;s research.\u00a0 The action was non-stop as people of all ages asked questions about NSSL&#8217;s research and our relationship with the movie &#8220;Twister.&#8221;\u00a0 The &#8220;tornado in a bottle&#8221; provided a springboard for questions about how tornadoes form and tornado safety with children.\u00a0 Questions about careers in meteorology were common, and closet weather fanatics enjoyed sharing their passion for the weather.<\/p>\n<p>This was the ninth year of WeatherFest, and the fifth year NSSL has sponsored a booth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 5,000 people of all ages crowded into &#8220;WeatherFest&#8221; at the Georgia World Congress Center to enjoy an interactive science and weather fair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":314,"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":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outreach"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","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=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}