{"388861":{"#nid":"388861","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Continues to Help Excite Atlanta about Science","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELast year was big! Bigger and better than anticipated.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cLast year\u0027s festival thoroughly eclipsed my expectations,\u201d said Paul Goldbart, dean of Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Sciences,\u0026nbsp;of the 2014 Atlanta Science Festival (ASF). \u201cIt\u2019s one thing to nudge along an existing program and even improve it here and there. It\u2019s quite another to make a whole science festival where there wasn\u2019t one \u2014 and to have some 30,000 people from our community engage in it.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022intro-text\u0022\u003EIt didn\u2019t matter that it was the first-ever ASF. Those 30,000 attended more than 100 events at 50 venues\u0026nbsp;over eight days.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022intro-text\u0022\u003EBuilding on last year\u2019s momentum, from March 21 to 28, ASF organizers and co-founders \u2014 Emory University, Georgia Tech, and the Metro Atlanta Chamber \u2014\u0026nbsp;will have events on offer for those of all ages interested in exploring the worlds of science and technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022intro-text\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/features\/tech-continues-help-excite-atlanta-about-science\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERead the full story about the 2015 Atlanta Science Festival.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis year\u0027s festival will have more than 100 events on offer for those of all ages interested in exploring the worlds of science and technology\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"This year\u0027s festival will have more than 100 events on offer for those of all ages interested in exploring the worlds of science and technology"}],"uid":"28128","created_gmt":"2015-03-19 12:28:49","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:54","author":"Nihit Tiwari","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-03-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-03-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"389011":{"id":"389011","type":"image","title":"Atlanta Science Festival Logo","body":null,"created":"1449246288","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:24:48","changed":"1475894349","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:39:09","alt":"Atlanta Science Festival Logo","file":{"fid":"75495","name":"asflogo-2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/asflogo-2.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/asflogo-2.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":113958,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/asflogo-2.jpg?itok=wbHqy6sX"}},"388871":{"id":"388871","type":"image","title":"Superhero Night at the Museum at the 2014 Atlanta Science Festival","body":null,"created":"1449246288","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:24:48","changed":"1475894151","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:35:51","alt":"Superhero Night at the Museum at the 2014 Atlanta Science Festival","file":{"fid":"75490","name":"superhero_night_at_the_museum_at_the_2014_atlanta_science_festival.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/superhero_night_at_the_museum_at_the_2014_atlanta_science_festival.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/superhero_night_at_the_museum_at_the_2014_atlanta_science_festival.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":216650,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/superhero_night_at_the_museum_at_the_2014_atlanta_science_festival.jpg?itok=qP-Znb9N"}}},"media_ids":["389011","388871"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/atlantasciencefestival.org\/","title":"Atlanta Science Festival"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"489","name":"atlanta"},{"id":"66491","name":"Atlanta Science Festival"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1564","name":"community"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"},{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:brigitte.espinet@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EBrigitte Espinet\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}