{"id":179,"date":"2026-03-21T03:02:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T03:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.sccs.swarthmore.edu\/shpeswarthmore\/?page_id=179"},"modified":"2026-03-21T03:08:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T03:08:34","slug":"179-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.sccs.swarthmore.edu\/shpeswarthmore\/179-2\/","title":{"rendered":"FAQ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-essential-blocks-advanced-heading  root-eb-advance-heading-qe76e\"><div class=\"eb-parent-wrapper eb-parent-eb-advance-heading-qe76e \"><div class=\"eb-advance-heading-wrapper eb-advance-heading-qe76e button-1 undefined\" data-id=\"eb-advance-heading-qe76e\"><h2 class=\"eb-ah-title\"><span class=\"first-title\"><strong>Frequently Asked Questions<\/strong> <\/span><\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary> Do I have to be an engineer?<\/summary>\n<p class=\"has-accent-4-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-bd8bf39c3bf1f10f256ca2342e89372c wp-block-paragraph\">This is a common misconception; the answer is no. You <strong>do not<\/strong> have to be an engineering major to join SHPE! SHPE is for all STEM majors and is not exclusive to engineering. <\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Do I have to be Hispanic to join? <\/summary>\n<p class=\"has-accent-4-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-bf90a5fe42847ac039a88936df067763 wp-block-paragraph\">This is another misconception; the answer is no. All are welcome to SHPE. We celebrate and recognize all the different cultural backgrounds. The &#8220;H&#8221; in SHPE also stands for &#8220;Honorary Hispanic&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-28933ccb1f25592d8773203d37ea45c0 is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>How do I join?<\/summary>\n<p class=\"has-accent-4-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-fb007aca5e82b1c5ba9c7685622b1a24 wp-block-paragraph\">Sign up for our mailing list or contact us here.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-179","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.sccs.swarthmore.edu\/shpeswarthmore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.sccs.swarthmore.edu\/shpeswarthmore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.sccs.swarthmore.edu\/shpeswarthmore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sccs.swarthmore.edu\/shpeswarthmore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sccs.swarthmore.edu\/shpeswarthmore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sccs.swarthmore.edu\/shpeswarthmore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sccs.swarthmore.edu\/shpeswarthmore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/179\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.sccs.swarthmore.edu\/shpeswarthmore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}