{"id":3693,"date":"2016-03-18T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T19:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=3693"},"modified":"2016-05-20T11:33:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T18:33:07","slug":"a-week-of-computer-coding-creative-storytelling-and-scholarship-donations-at-fairmont-elementary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=3693","title":{"rendered":"A week of computer coding, creative storytelling and scholarship donations at Fairmont Elementary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fairmont Elementary School gifted and talented education (GATE) students participated in a nine-week technology academy in which they used &#8220;Scratch&#8221; programming to code and create their own game. Then, Fairmont held a GATE orientation night, and the students showcased the games they created. Thanks to parent Mr. Lee who introduced and taught the students &#8220;Scratch.&#8221; The academy was led by Fairmont lead GATE teacher, Mrs. Pat Shea.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/fairmont-gate-scratch.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3694\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3694\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/fairmont-gate-scratch-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"fairmont-gate-scratch\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/fairmont-gate-scratch-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/fairmont-gate-scratch.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recently, Fairmont students wrote creative stories, and actors from Imagination Machine performed them in grade-level assemblies. It was exciting and engaging to see the students&#8217; stories come to life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/fairmont-imagination-machine-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3696\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3696\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/fairmont-imagination-machine-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"fairmont-imagination-machine-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/fairmont-imagination-machine-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/fairmont-imagination-machine-2-260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/fairmont-imagination-machine-2-120x67.jpg 120w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/fairmont-imagination-machine-2.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This past week, students donated $1 or more to Fairmont&#8217;s annual March Madness Shawn Knutson Scholarship Drive. This scholarship is awarded annually to a graduating Fairmont student.\u00a0Fairmont students are also currently donating canned food items to support the district pantry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fairmont Elementary School gifted and talented education (GATE) students participated in a nine-week technology academy in which they used &#8220;Scratch&#8221; programming to code and create&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1168,15],"tags":[329],"class_list":["post-3693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elementary-school","category-school-district","tag-fairmont-elementary-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693","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=3693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}