{"id":97784,"date":"2018-09-26T10:11:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T16:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/southwest-open-school-receives-4000-stem-grant\/"},"modified":"2018-09-26T10:11:12","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T16:11:12","slug":"southwest-open-school-receives-4000-stem-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/southwest-open-school-receives-4000-stem-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Open School receives $4,000 STEM grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2316a651-4f6e-4de8-a4ca-7bb758171bb2&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2316a651-4f6e-4de8-a4ca-7bb758171bb2&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2316a651-4f6e-4de8-a4ca-7bb758171bb2&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2316a651-4f6e-4de8-a4ca-7bb758171bb2&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" alt=\"Adrianna Martinez receives her diploma from Southwest Open School Director Matt Keefauver on May 30.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Adrianna Martinez receives her diploma from Southwest Open School Director Matt Keefauver on May 30.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">The Journal file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Southwest Open School announced Wednesday that it has received a $4,000 STEM grant from the Toshiba America Foundation to support the school\u2019s computer build-out project.<\/p>\n<p>The project will integrate technology into the curriculum by having students build personal computers from component retail parts, SWOS Director Matthew Keefauver said. The students will budget, select components and styles, program, and by the end of the program have constructed a working personal computer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis project is the perfect example of hands-on, experiential learning at SWOS,\u201d Keefauver said. \u201cThis is what we do best!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Toshiba America Foundation\u2019s grants fund projects designed by classroom teachers. The \u201cdirect-to-teacher\u201d approach brings immediate results, Keefauver said, by allowing them to teach science, technology, engineering and math using hands-on experiments and inquiry-based approaches to the curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>According to Toshiba, its grants help teachers become more effective, and classes more exciting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrianna Martinez receives her diploma from Southwest Open School Director Matt Keefauver on May 30.The Journal file Southwest Open School announced Wednesday that it has received a $4,000 STEM grant from the Toshiba America Foundation to support the school\u2019s computer build-out project. The project will integrate technology into the curriculum by having students build personal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[202,21],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-97784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-briefs","tag-cortez"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97784","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=97784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97784"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=97784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}