{"id":13207,"date":"2018-06-08T11:30:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T18:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=13207"},"modified":"2018-06-08T11:36:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T18:36:28","slug":"aztec-engineering-and-manufacturing-academy-teams-up-with-esperanza-ceramics-classes-to-build-a-new-state-of-the-art-kiln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=13207","title":{"rendered":"Aztec Engineering and Manufacturing Academy teams up with Esperanza ceramics classes to build a new, state-of-the-art kiln"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Esperanza High School (EHS) is in the process of building a new kiln in their ceramics studio with help from the school&#8217;s Aztec Engineering and Manufacturing (AEM) Academy.\u00a0 A kiln is a a furnace or oven for burning, baking, or drying something, especially one for firing pottery.<\/p>\n<p>Under the direction of AEM teacher, Jeff Wallace, students have started the construction on the kiln.\u00a0 Together with ceramics teacher,\u00a0Kevin Kowalski, the Aztecs have designed and manufactured a very sturdy level base for the kiln.<\/p>\n<p>As the next step, ceramic students stacked, cut, and shaved bricks to construct the walls of the new kiln.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hope to have an arch and door by the end of the school year,&#8221; Kowalski mentioned.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Esperanza-High-Ceramic-AEM-Partner-6-4-18.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13211\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Esperanza-High-Ceramic-AEM-Partner-6-4-18-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"AEM and ceramics partnership at EHS.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Esperanza-High-Ceramic-AEM-Partner-6-4-18-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Esperanza-High-Ceramic-AEM-Partner-6-4-18.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Esperanza-High-Ceramic-AEM-Partner-6-4-18-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13210\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Esperanza-High-Ceramic-AEM-Partner-6-4-18-4-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"AEM and ceramics partnership at EHS.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Esperanza-High-Ceramic-AEM-Partner-6-4-18-4-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Esperanza-High-Ceramic-AEM-Partner-6-4-18-4.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Esperanza-High-Ceramic-AEM-Partner-6-4-18-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13209\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Esperanza-High-Ceramic-AEM-Partner-6-4-18-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"AEM and ceramics partnership at EHS.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Esperanza-High-Ceramic-AEM-Partner-6-4-18-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Esperanza-High-Ceramic-AEM-Partner-6-4-18-2.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esperanza High School (EHS) is in the process of building a new kiln in their ceramics studio with help from the school&#8217;s Aztec Engineering and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1177],"tags":[1795,1794,1689,216,833,1500,1665,146,1531],"class_list":["post-13207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school","tag-aem","tag-aztec-engineering-and-manufacturing-academy","tag-aztecs","tag-career-technical-education","tag-careerlink-academies","tag-ehs","tag-esperanza","tag-esperanza-high-school","tag-pylusd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13207","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=13207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}