{"id":30629,"date":"2026-02-26T09:25:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/?p=30629"},"modified":"2026-02-26T09:25:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:25:45","slug":"pjas-competition-hosted-this-saturday-february-28-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/pjas-competition-hosted-this-saturday-february-28-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"PJAS Competition hosted this Saturday, February 28, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This <\/span><b>Saturday, February 28, 2026<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Wilkes will host the<\/span><b> Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (PJAS) competition. This event will bring 600 high school students and 125 judges to campus.\u00a0 All classrooms in the following buildings have been reserved for the event: Cohen, Stark, Breiseth, Kirby, Karambelas, Marts &amp; SIMMS.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is the first Saturday of spring break and we ask that you please lock your offices and remove any materials that would be left in general classroom spaces. There will be PJAS staff &amp; judges assigned to each room with the students during the presentations. Once the presentations are over, students will be directed to any of the following locations: Henry Student Center, MAC or Starbucks. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><b>Schedule of Events:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">8:00-9:00 AM \u2013 Student Registration \u2013 SIMMS\/MAC Lobby<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">10:00 AM \u2013 PJAS &amp; Admissions Presentation \u2013 MAC<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">10:15 AM- Dismissal to classrooms<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">10:30-1:45 PM \u2013 Presentations in various campus classrooms <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">11:00 AM \u2013 Scholarship interviews; Farley Library, lower level by appointment<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">4:30 PM-6:30 PM- Award Ceremony \u2013 MAC<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you have any questions, please email <\/span><a href=\"mailto:events@wilkes.edu\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">events@wilkes.edu<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Saturday, February 28, 2026, Wilkes will host the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science (PJAS) competition. This event will bring 600 high school students and 125 judges to campus.\u00a0 All classrooms in the following buildings have been reserved for the event: Cohen, Stark, Breiseth, Kirby, Karambelas, Marts &amp; SIMMS.This is the first Saturday of spring&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/pjas-competition-hosted-this-saturday-february-28-2026\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PJAS Competition hosted this Saturday, February 28, 2026<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30634,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30629\/revisions\/30634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}