{"id":157555,"date":"2025-03-21T13:53:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T17:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=157555"},"modified":"2025-03-24T09:00:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T13:00:24","slug":"wright-state-media-highlights-march-13-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2025\/03\/21\/wright-state-media-highlights-march-13-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State media highlights, March 13\u201321"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2025\/03\/21\/wright-state-media-highlights-march-13-21\/hoopla-stem-checks-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-157801\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-157801\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2025\/03\/hoopla-STEM-checks-1-508x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Big Hoopla STEM Challenge, Match Day and Wright State&#8217;s Theatre&#8217;s &#8220;Alice by Heart&#8221; garnered local media coverage for Wright State last week.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dayton Daily News: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/local\/the-big-hoopla-stem-challenge-brings-1500-kids-to-wright-state-campus\/O3VVGLU6FNDSTENF5MILE5TUKY\/\"><strong>STEM Challenge brings 1,500 kids to Wright State campus<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nStudents who participated in the Big Hoopla STEM Challenge could win full in-state tuition scholarships.<\/p>\n<p>WDTN-TV: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b_8lczVZ0fQ\">Wright State hosts the Big Hoopla 4 Miler <\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nWright State alumnus Austin Szekacs won the annual four-mile race that kicked off the Big Hoopla&#8217;s First Four events.<\/p>\n<p>ABC22: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/RE8NA4wCZXc?si=6fPwmm_y3fpC8qbk\"><strong>12 local students awarded scholarships to Wright State<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nStudents who won full in-state tuition scholarships to Wright State were recognized during the NCAA First Four games.<\/p>\n<p>Dayton Daily News: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/local\/match-day-at-wright-states-boonshoft-school-of-medicine-nearly-120-new-doctors-find-out-residency-placements\/QVIFXVAORBFQPMSYMD6L3ZC6MY\/\">Match Day at Wright State\u2019s Boonshoft School of Medicine: Nearly 120 new doctors find out residency placements<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cYou will never forget opening that envelope,&#8221; Raj Mitra, dean of the Boonshoft School of Medicine, told 119 future doctors on Match Day.<\/p>\n<p>Dayton Daily News: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/local\/photos-wright-state-university-boonshoft-school-of-medicine-hosts-2025-match-day\/JEJ3XI3NO5EQXIUJUCEYZG5C6Y\/\">PHOTOS: Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine hosts 2025 Match Day<\/a><br \/>\nA Dayton Daily News photographer captured the joy and heartfelt moments Wright State medical students experienced during Match Day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Good Day Dayton&#8221;: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/miVb7sa3jDg?si=7WOqMlTIvsAORVGW\"><strong>Wright State Theatre presents &#8216;Alice by Heart&#8217; from March 20 to 30<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nCate Lightbody, a senior musical theatre major, and Aidan Fracker, a senior acting major, preview the bittersweet coming-of-age musical &#8220;Alice by Heart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dayton Daily News: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/local\/i-need-to-love-myself-panel-spotlights-mental-health\/HMZYPOP5OJA2JBXHTPYZABYD6I\/\"><strong>\u2018I need to love myself:\u2019 Panel spotlights mental health at Wright State<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nPanelists brought together by the nonprofit Project Blackbird used their unique backgrounds and stories to spark conversations normalizing talking about mental health during an event at Wright State.<\/p>\n<p>WHIO-TV: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/news\/local\/its-exhilarating-8th-grader-headed-dc-after-winning-regional-spelling-bee\/Z6PVNLFHWNEX7NNIKTUF7HII3U\/\"><strong>\u2018It\u2019s exhilarating;\u2019 8th grader headed to D.C. after winning Wright State&#8217;s Regional Spelling Bee<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nCenterville student Aurora Spisak won the Wright State Regional Spelling Bee for the second year in a row, qualifying for the Scripps National Spelling Bee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Hoopla STEM Challenge, Match Day and Wright State&#8217;s Theatre&#8217;s &#8220;Alice by Heart&#8221; garnered local media coverage for Wright State this week. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2025\/03\/21\/wright-state-media-highlights-march-13-21\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":157801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[725,715,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home-news-sidebar","category-news","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157555"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157877,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157555\/revisions\/157877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}