{"id":16,"date":"2025-12-11T16:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T00:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/aspire\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2026-01-15T15:29:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T23:29:00","slug":"about-aspire","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/aspire\/about-aspire\/","title":{"rendered":"About ASPIRE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-mudd2021-right-sidebar right-sidebar\" id=\"right-sidebar\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Application Open<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<span class=\"wp-block-mudd-button is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/connect.hmc.edu\/register\/aspire\" aria-label=\"Apply now to ASPIRE\"><span>Apply Now<\/span><\/a><\/span>\n\n\n\n<p>Please email your questions to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:&#97;s&#112;ire&#64;hmc&#46;&#101;&#100;u\">as&#112;ire&#64;&#104;mc.&#101;&#100;&#117;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Harvey Mudd College Mission<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Harvey Mudd College seeks to educate engineers, scientists and mathematicians well versed in all of these areas and in the humanities, social sciences and the arts so that they may assume leadership in their fields with a clear understanding of the impact of their work on society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mission of Mudd Summer Academy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Through immersive, hands-on STEAM coursework, laboratory experiences, and collaborative community engagement, ASPIRE equips high school students with strong problem-solving, critical-thinking, and teamwork skills. Grounded in Harvey Mudd College\u2019s mission, the program integrates technical rigor with humanistic inquiry, ethical reasoning, and inclusive leadership\u2014preparing students not only to excel in STEM fields, but to apply their knowledge responsibly and creatively in service of a better world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<span class=\"wp-block-mudd-button is-style-in-row\"><a href=\"https:\/\/connect.hmc.edu\/register\/aspire\"><span>Apply Now<\/span><\/a><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvey Mudd College Mission Harvey Mudd College seeks to educate engineers, scientists and mathematicians well versed in all of these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":198,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/aspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/aspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/aspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/aspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/aspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/aspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/aspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/aspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/aspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}