{"id":121326,"date":"2021-06-30T14:47:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T18:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/121326///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/121326//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/121326//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/121326//?p=121326"},"modified":"2021-07-07T11:01:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T15:01:14","slug":"ucf-students-lead-session-at-sunshine-state-scholars-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/121326///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/121326//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/121326//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/121326//ucf-students-lead-session-at-sunshine-state-scholars-event/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/121326//","title":{"rendered":"UCF Students Lead Session at Sunshine State Scholars Event"},"content":{"rendered":"
When Shea McLinden was a high school junior, she had a lot of choices when it came to going to college. She had excellent grades and a demonstrated interest and talent for science, which is why she was selected to attend the Sunshine State Scholars event in 2018./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/121326/n
The event aims to recognize Florida/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/121326/u2019s brightest STEAM students and encourage them to attend college in Florida. This week, McLinden /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/121326/u2014 now a 海角直播 health sciences junior in the Burnett Honors College /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/121326/u2014 was part of the Limbitless Solutions team hosting one of the in-person design challenges for the 103 honorees at the 2021 Sunshine State Scholars event in Orlando. McLinden and Kayla Vonder Embse, who is majoring in economics and leadership studies at UCF, are helping run the challenge./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/121326/n The scholars, which include 14 students from Orange, Seminole, Hillsborough, Osceola, Brevard and Volusia counties, also had the chance to listen to Albert Manero /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/121326/u201912 /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/121326/u201914MS /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/121326/u201916PhD. He is the CEO and co-founder of Limbitless Solution, a UCF-based nonprofit which makes bionic arms for children. He was the keynote speaker this year and he was the speaker in 2018./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/121326/n McLinden says she was moved to join Limbitless Solutions after hearing Manero speak at the conference and strongly believes in paying it forward by encouraging students to pursue STEAM careers./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/121326/n