{"id":247419,"date":"2017-03-01T06:06:41","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T20:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=247419"},"modified":"2017-03-01T06:06:41","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T20:06:41","slug":"donates-20k-uog-school-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/donates-20k-uog-school-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"SAME donates $20K to UOG School of Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_247422\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-247422\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/SAME-pix.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-247422\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-247422\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/SAME-pix-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"The Society of American Military Engineers Guam Post recently donated $20,000 to\u00a0the\u00a0University of Guam Endowment Foundation for the university\u2019s School of Engineering.\u00a0 From left to right, SAME Guam Post president Noel Enriquez, SAME Guam Post vice president LCDR Matthew Mattivi, CEC, USN, 1st, SAME Guam Post director Bob Shambach, SAME Guam Post treasurer Chris\u00a0Arnsfield, UOG president Dr. Robert Underwood, and UOG Endowment Foundation director Janiece Sablan. (UOG)\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-247422\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Society of American Military Engineers Guam Post recently donated $20,000 to\u00a0the\u00a0University of Guam Endowment Foundation for the university\u2019s School of Engineering.\u00a0 From left to right, SAME Guam Post president Noel Enriquez, SAME Guam Post vice president LCDR Matthew Mattivi, CEC, USN, 1st, SAME Guam Post director Bob Shambach, SAME Guam Post treasurer Chris\u00a0Arnsfield, UOG president Dr. Robert Underwood, and UOG Endowment Foundation director Janiece Sablan. (UOG)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In support of the\u00a0University of Guam\u00a0School of Engineering, the Society of American Military Engineers recently donated $20,000 to the University of Guam Endowment Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The donation\u2014made during\u00a0Engineering\u00a0Week\u2014aligns with the organization\u2019s vision to develop the nation\u2019s future engineers and grow prospective members through STEM outreach efforts, scholarships, and engagement of College Student Chapters,\u00a0said SAME Guam Post president\u00a0Noel Enriquez.\u00a0\u2028\u201cHigher education is the backbone of SAME membership and without the students and institutions to support higher learning, whether they come from the military, public, or private sector, the membership in SAME would not exist,\u201d Enriquez said.<\/p>\n<p>During the week, UOG\u00a0pre-engineering\u00a0students in the SAME Student Chapter\u00a0partnered\u00a0with professional engineers\u00a0and visited high schools around the island. They talked\u00a0about the\u00a0pre-engineering\u00a0program at UOG and\u00a0encouraged aspiring engineers to participate\u00a0in the upcoming 5th\u00a0Annual Dean\u00a0Gillham Bridge\u00a0Building Competition,\u00a0which will be held at UOG\u00a0on March 11, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Foundation\u00a0executive\u00a0director Janiece Sablan said a faculty office\u00a0within\u00a0the\u00a0upcoming School of Engineering\u00a0building\u00a0will be\u00a0named for SAME to recognize\u00a0its contribution. The university hopes to break ground on the building this spring. <em>(UOG)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In support of the\u00a0University of Guam\u00a0School of Engineering, the Society of American Military Engineers recently&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":247422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18],"tags":[15802,15803,3611,445],"class_list":["post-247419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life","category-pacific","tag-engineering-week","tag-janiece-sablan","tag-noel-enriquez","tag-uog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}