{"id":13043,"date":"2018-06-01T08:16:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T15:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=13043"},"modified":"2018-06-01T10:34:26","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T17:34:26","slug":"pylusd-set-to-host-appjam-spring-2018-showcase-finale-at-performing-arts-center-on-june-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=13043","title":{"rendered":"PYLUSD set to host AppJam+ Spring 2018 Showcase Finale at Performing Arts Center on June 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"summary cf\">The AppJam+ Spring 2018 Showcase Finale will take place Thursday, June 7, 2018 from 5 to 8 PM at the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District (PYLUSD) Performing Arts Center (PAC).\u00a0\u00a0In front of a panel of esteemed judges, teams of students will contend for top mobile application accolades and exciting, educational prizes.\u00a0 To RSVP to the event, please <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSf75qyxh_ee15VLuv6fOkUpYZcThW0qCNeYTrr_GWeLpqUh6w\/viewform\">click here<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/aside>\n<div class=\"body cf\">\n<div>\n<p>Leading up to this event, AppJam+, an initiative of Dreams for Schools, paired middle school students with college mentors from Computer Science and Engineering fields to expose them to mobile app development and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) career pathways. Mentors work with the students over 8-10 weeks for 2-hour programming sessions twice a week. Forming teams of 4-5 students, they utilize AppInventor to create a STEM related mobile app designated for a K-12 audience.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>This Spring, Dreams for Schools partnered with PYLUSD to bring the AppJam+ program to all the six middle schools in the District &#8212; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.byms.org\/\">Bernardo Yorba Middle School<\/a><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kraemerms.org\/\">Kraemer Middle School<\/a><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.travisranchschool.org\/\">Travis Ranch School<\/a><\/span>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tuffree.org\/\">Tuffree Middle School<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/valadez-pylusd-ca.schoolloop.com\/\">Valadez Middle School Academy<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ylms.org\/\">Yorba Linda Middle School<\/a>.\u00a0 For the first time, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vhstigers.org\/\">Valencia High School<\/a><\/span> also signed up to participate in the voluntary after-school program.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>This hands-on, creative challenge to build a working piece of software on a deadline gets school students excited about and exposed to STEM fields.\u00a0 For more information about AppJam+, please visit\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.appjamplus.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.appjamplus.com<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once again, to RSVP to the event on June 7, please\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSf75qyxh_ee15VLuv6fOkUpYZcThW0qCNeYTrr_GWeLpqUh6w\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here.<\/a>\u00a0 <\/strong>The PYLUSD Performing Arts Center is located at El Dorado High School &#8211;\u00a01651 Valencia Ave, Placentia, CA 92870.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>To see a recap of the Fall 2017 Showcase Finale by AppJam+ and the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District, view the video below.<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AppJam+ Fall 2017 PYLUSD Showcase Finale Recap 11.29\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5jjnLuvKGhU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AppJam+ Spring 2018 Showcase Finale will take place Thursday, June 7, 2018 from 5 to 8 PM at the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1177,1178,15],"tags":[1910,1911,813,777,484,1532,1620,1531,282,268,5],"class_list":["post-13043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school","category-middle-school","category-school-district","tag-appjam","tag-dreams-for-schools","tag-engineering","tag-mathematics","tag-performing-arts-center","tag-placentia-yorba-linda-unified-school-district","tag-pyl","tag-pylusd","tag-science","tag-stem","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}