{"id":6959,"date":"2015-11-13T13:22:56","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T20:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6959"},"modified":"2015-11-19T13:40:24","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T20:40:24","slug":"kid-wins-250k-explaining-einstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/11\/13\/kid-wins-250k-explaining-einstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Kid Wins $250k Explaining Einstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/education\/wp\/2015\/11\/09\/this-high-school-student-just-won-250000-for-his-film-explaining-einsteins-theory-of-relativity\/?wpmm=1&amp;wpisrc=nl_evening\" target=\"_blank\">from The Washington Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>This high school student just won $250,000 for his film explaining Einstein\u2019s theory of relativity<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/emma-brown\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Brown<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CYv5GsXEf1o\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ohio high school senior Ryan Chester\u00a0became the inaugural winner of a new college scholarship on Sunday night, winning $250,000 for his 7-minute film that uses simple props and hand-drawn graphics to\u00a0explain Einstein\u2019s special theory of relativity.<\/p>\n<p>Besides winning that money for himself, Chester also won $100,000 for a new science lab at his school in the Cleveland suburbs, North Royalton High, and $50,000 for his physics teacher, Richard Nestoff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is awesome,\u201d Chester, 18, said in an interview Monday, the day after he accepted the award.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/education\/wp\/2015\/11\/09\/this-high-school-student-just-won-250000-for-his-film-explaining-einsteins-theory-of-relativity\/?wpmm=1&amp;wpisrc=nl_evening\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at WaPo<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Washington Post This high school student just won $250,000 for his film explaining Einstein\u2019s theory of relativity By\u00a0Emma Brown Ohio high school senior Ryan Chester\u00a0became the inaugural winner of a new college scholarship on Sunday night, winning $250,000 for his 7-minute film that uses simple props and hand-drawn graphics to\u00a0explain Einstein\u2019s special theory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}