{"id":9894,"date":"2017-10-17T09:50:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T16:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=9894"},"modified":"2017-10-20T09:54:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T16:54:45","slug":"gate-students-at-fairmont-elementary-begin-inventioneering-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=9894","title":{"rendered":"GATE students at Fairmont Elementary begin Inventioneering Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fairmont Elementary School fourth through sixth grade GATE students began their Inventioneering Academy\u00a0in October with a study of Leonardo da Vinci and his use of simple machines. Through interactive lessons led by teacher, Mrs. Shea, students were introduced to da Vinci\u2019s catapult and the mechanics that made it work. Modeling their work after da Vinci\u2019s blueprints, students were then tasked with designing their own catapults which they then tested for accuracy and distance.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next up, the Academy will be heading on a field trip to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trash for Teaching<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> where they will put their engineering skills to the test by using recyclables to create the \u201cUltimate Recycling Machine and Creative Circuits.\u201d\u00a0 Great job, Falcons!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Fairmont-Elementary-GATE-Academies-10-17-17.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9896\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Fairmont-Elementary-GATE-Academies-10-17-17-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Fairmont GATE students participating in inventioneering.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Fairmont-Elementary-GATE-Academies-10-17-17-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Fairmont-Elementary-GATE-Academies-10-17-17-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Fairmont-Elementary-GATE-Academies-10-17-17.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fairmont Elementary School fourth through sixth grade GATE students began their Inventioneering Academy\u00a0in October with a study of Leonardo da Vinci and his use of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1168],"tags":[329,1536],"class_list":["post-9894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elementary-school","tag-fairmont-elementary-school","tag-fairmont-falcons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9894","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=9894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}