{"id":19753,"date":"2024-05-21T11:10:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T15:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=19753"},"modified":"2025-04-17T11:11:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T15:11:22","slug":"on-this-day-april-22-2008-etown-hosts-first-scholarship-and-creative-arts-day-scad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2024\/05\/21\/on-this-day-april-22-2008-etown-hosts-first-scholarship-and-creative-arts-day-scad\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: April 22, 2008 | Etown Hosts First Scholarship and Creative Arts Day (SCAD)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 22, 2008, Elizabethtown College hosted the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etown.edu\/programs\/scad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scholarship and Creative Arts Day (SCAD),<\/a> an initiative designed to encourage collaboration between students and faculty and showcase students\u2019 talents.<\/p>\n<p>The first SCAD featured special guest Bill Nye serving as the keynote speaker. Nye is a scientist who gained popularity with his show, \u201cBill Nye the Science Guy,<em>\u201d<\/em> which aired on PBS from 1993-97. At the first SCAD, 21 Biology students presented posters showcasing the research they completed with faculty mentors.<\/p>\n<p>Today, SCAD has grown to include every discipline across the College and extends from poster presentations and academic research to showcasing the creative arts through recitals and a juried art exhibit. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etown.edu\/programs\/scad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more about SCAD.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Throughout Elizabethtown College\u2019s 125th anniversary year, follow along as we share 125 compelling stories about the College\u2019s defining moments, alumni stories, and fun facts since our founding in 1899 at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.etown.edu\/125-celebration\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">etown.edu.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 22, 2008, Elizabethtown College hosted the first Scholarship and Creative Arts Day (SCAD), an initiative designed to encourage collaboration between students and faculty and showcase students\u2019 talents. The first SCAD featured special guest Bill Nye serving as the keynote speaker. Nye is a scientist who gained popularity with his show, \u201cBill Nye the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":19755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19762,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19753\/revisions\/19762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}