{"id":9238,"date":"2017-06-14T08:33:45","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T15:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=9238"},"modified":"2017-07-10T08:59:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T15:59:00","slug":"pylusd-avid-students-visit-uci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=9238","title":{"rendered":"PYLUSD AVID students visit UCI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 1, in a joint adventure between Bernardo Yorba Middle School (BYMS) and Esperanza High School (EHS), three generations of AVID students were treated to a campus tour and a special guest speaker at University of California, Irvine. \u00a0A\u00a0highlight of the trip was learning the story about the school&#8217;s Anteater\u00a0mascot, &#8220;Zot.&#8221; \u00a0In addition to touring the beautiful campus, students learned about programs, admissions requirements, and college life.\u00a0 The students also LOVED eating at the dining commons and shopping in the bookstore.<\/p>\n<p>At the conclusion of the tour and lunch, students had the opportunity to hear from one of BYMS teacher, Mrs. Swarm&#8217;s, former students who is set to graduate from\u00a0UCI this year. \u00a0The former students will graduate with a double major in criminology and forensic science and will be heading to work for the FBI next month.\u00a0 She answered questions for the students and encouraged them that they &#8220;could do ANYTHING.&#8221; \u00a0Her best advice was to remember that\u00a0<i>your GPA isn&#8217;t representative of how smart you are, but how hard you work!<\/i>\u00a0\u00a0Chaperones Mrs. Swarm, Mrs. Cyrus, and Ms. Garcia agreed with the student!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/BYMS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9240\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/BYMS-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"BYMS and EHS students visiting UCI.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/BYMS-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/BYMS.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 1, in a joint adventure between Bernardo Yorba Middle School (BYMS) and Esperanza High School (EHS), three generations of AVID students were treated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1177,1178],"tags":[79,1516,599,1515,1500,1501,146,1605,1604],"class_list":["post-9238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school","category-middle-school","tag-avid","tag-bernardo-yorba-matadors","tag-bernardo-yorba-middle-school","tag-byms","tag-ehs","tag-esperanza-aztecs","tag-esperanza-high-school","tag-uci","tag-university-of-california-irvine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238","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=9238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}