{"id":8806,"date":"2017-05-19T12:22:14","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T19:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=8806"},"modified":"2017-05-19T12:22:14","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T19:22:14","slug":"topaz-elementary-students-taught-valuable-life-and-career-skills-by-blizzard-entertainment-mentors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=8806","title":{"rendered":"Topaz Elementary students taught valuable life and career skills by Blizzard Entertainment mentors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you get when you combine a premier game developer and publisher known for epic, well-designed entertainment software, Orange County GRIP, and Topaz Elementary School? \u00a0Students motivated to excel.<\/p>\n<p>Blizzard Entertainment partnered with OC Grip and the Fullerton Police Department to bring mentors to Topaz Elementary School.\u00a0 Employees from Blizzard Entertainment met monthly to mentor students and teach them that passion, creativity, and imagination are valuable tools to have.<\/p>\n<p>Students created personalized Google Slide shows about their lives, designed video game characters, created lines and sounds effects to be used with their characters, and finally had their character voices professionally recorded and uploaded to a game card.<\/p>\n<p>Mentors interacted with Topaz students to instill some of the same core values that they have at Blizzard Entertainment such as Play Nice, Place Fair, Lead Responsibly, Commit to Quality, Every Voice Matters, and Learn and Grow.\u00a0\u00a0 Mentors met and worked with students to develop communication skills, team work, and critical thinking, using imagination and creativity.<\/p>\n<p>The culminating event was a well-deserved field trip to Blizzard Entertainment in Irvine.\u00a0 The students were invited to a private screening where the characters and voices the students created came to life in a software game called Hearthstone. \u00a0Topaz students learned to follow their passion and never stop learning.\u00a0 That same passion for the things they love could one day lead to a full time career.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TOPAZ-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8808\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TOPAZ-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Topaz students at Blizzard Entertainment on a field trip.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TOPAZ-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TOPAZ-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TOPAZ-2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you get when you combine a premier game developer and publisher known for epic, well-designed entertainment software, Orange County GRIP, and Topaz Elementary&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1168],"tags":[1556,1557,101,1555],"class_list":["post-8806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elementary-school","tag-blizzard-entertainment","tag-mentors","tag-topaz-elementary-school","tag-topaz-tigers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8806","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=8806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}