{"id":5079,"date":"2018-02-23T09:50:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T14:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/?p=5079"},"modified":"2025-08-23T17:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T21:27:12","slug":"planet-head-day-at-umpi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2018\/02\/23\/planet-head-day-at-umpi\/","title":{"rendered":"Planet Head Day at UMPI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5080\" style=\"width: 444px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2018\/02\/KL4_4056a-s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5080\" class=\" wp-image-5080\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2018\/02\/KL4_4056a-s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"434\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/02\/KL4_4056a-s.jpg 500w, https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/02\/KL4_4056a-s-234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5080\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Planet Head Day, courtesy umpi.edu<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Support, Care, Contribute, Encourage, Educate&#8230;. \u00a0Those will be some of the words heard on Saturday, March 10, at UMPI. \u00a0That will be the 12th annual Planet Head Day.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Dr. Kevin McCartney, one of its founders, \u00a0said, \u201cThe purpose of Planet Head Day was to provide science education associated with the New Horizons, a mission to Pluto program. \u00a0But later was expanded into a fundraiser for the Caring Area Neighbors for Cancer Education and Recovery (C-A-N-C-E-R).\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This year the event will be international with a simulcast event happening in Poland. The two events will begin with the introductions from both McCartney and Dr. Tomasz Herzog. \u00a0McCartney will be traveling to Poland for the event ceremony. \u00a0He will give an introduction for the event in English, while Herzog will be giving an introduction here at UMPI in Polish. The purpose for this year\u2019s event is to recognize the international nature that Planet Head Day serves. Both locations will run at the same time, starting at 10 a.m. here at UMPI and 4 p.m. in Poland. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Along with McCartney, this event it was founded by Jeannie McGowan who lost her life to cancer a year and half ago, in 2007. \u00a0McCartney said, \u201cThis is an extension of my interests both in science, education and community service. I think we have likely raised over $100,000 for C-A-N-C-E-R over the years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The event will be taking place on Saturday, March 10, 2018, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Wieden Hall Gymnasium here at UMPI. \u00a0It will be hosted by C-A-N-C-E-R, the University of Maine at Presque Isle, Northern Maine Museum of Science and NASA New Horizons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Just choose your favorite planet, get your head painted and support our community. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Support, Care, Contribute, Encourage, Educate&#8230;. \u00a0Those will be some of the words heard on Saturday, March 10, at UMPI. \u00a0That will be the 12th annual Planet Head Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8751,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079\/revisions\/8751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}