{"id":100317,"date":"2018-04-15T18:08:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T00:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-students-nominated-for-d-c-leadership-conference\/"},"modified":"2018-04-15T18:08:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T00:08:28","slug":"cortez-students-nominated-for-d-c-leadership-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-students-nominated-for-d-c-leadership-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez students nominated for D.C. leadership conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Eleven Cortez Middle School students have been nominated to attend the Junior National Young Leaders Conference in Washington, D.C., this summer.<\/p>\n

The sixth-graders were nominated by English language arts teacher Cody Childers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were looking for students who show great attendance, academic work and also the behavioral side of things that showed they were a positive contributor to the classroom,\u201d Childers said.<\/p>\n

He said he nominated the students because they fit those qualifications.<\/p>\n

In the acceptance letter, the Junior National Young Leaders Conference cites selection based upon \u201cscholastic merit, maturity and strength of character to represent Cortez Middle School.\u201d<\/p>\n

The program costs anywhere from $1,695 to $2,295, depending on whether the student chooses to stay in program housing or be picked up and dropped off each day, according to the program website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to Childers, the 11 Cortez Middle School sixth-grade students who had received their letter from the program are, as of April 19:<\/p>\n

Alicia Brito, Adrien Corlew, Tyler Jackson, Helen Jiang, Myles Larrick, Lily Sandner, Isabella Tewell, Haley Thompson, Waylon Thompson, Airoughn VanGrandt and David Vreeken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sixth-graders selected by teacher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[21,147,155,13,216],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-100317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-cortez","tag-cortez-middle-school","tag-education","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-montezuma-cortez-school-district-re-1"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100317"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=100317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}