{"id":565,"date":"2021-05-17T04:00:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T04:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/?p=565"},"modified":"2024-08-30T11:12:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T15:12:30","slug":"mcc-celebrates-original-creative-scholarly-works-of-over-40-students-with-local-community-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/2021\/05\/17\/mcc-celebrates-original-creative-scholarly-works-of-over-40-students-with-local-community-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"MCC Celebrates Original, Creative, Scholarly Works of over 40 Students with Local Community and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Virtual Scholars\u2019 Day features tech <\/em><em>demos and <\/em><em>research presentations<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2013<\/strong> Over 40 Monroe Community College students will showcase their original research and creative works at the college\u2019s virtual Scholars\u2019 Day, scheduled for May 17-19.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the past 11 pre-pandemic years when MCC hosted a daylong program of poster exhibits and oral presentations in classrooms and campus spaces filled with guests, this year students have uploaded videos of their presentations online for MCC members and the community at large to <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/scholarsday2021\">view<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/scholarsday2021\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/scholarsday2021<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Scholars\u2019 Day is one of MCC\u2019s highly attended events, with presenters across disciplines competing for awards. The event provides a platform for students, faculty and staff to showcase their outstanding creative and scholarly works such as research and writing projects, theatrical performances, exhibits, symposia, panel discussions and robotics demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>Some of this year\u2019s presentation topics include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Language Discrimination by Artificial Intelligence in Job Interviews<\/li>\n<li>Bridging the Digital Divide for Middle and High School Students<\/li>\n<li>Invisible Walls: Segregation in Monroe County<\/li>\n<li>The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations: Black Male Students, Affluent Schools, and Downward Economic Mobility<\/li>\n<li>Optimizing Car Design Using SOLIDWORKS\u00ae<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Presentations are judged on originality, creativity and the scholars\u2019 depth of understanding of the topic. Top presenters are eligible for $25,000\u00a0in scholarships, thanks to Monroe Community College\u00a0Foundation supporters and the ESL Charitable Foundation. Scholarship recipients will be announced Wednesday, May 26, on MCC\u2019s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 40 Monroe Community College students will showcase their original research and creative works at the college\u2019s virtual Scholars\u2019 Day, scheduled for May 17-19. Scholars\u2019 Day is one of MCC\u2019s highly attended events, with presenters across disciplines competing for awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news","tag-scholars-day"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":569,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}