{"id":42413,"date":"2017-01-13T12:18:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T17:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=42413"},"modified":"2017-01-13T12:23:11","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T17:23:11","slug":"8-year-old-tortuga-preserve-elementary-school-student-gets-special-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2017\/01\/8-year-old-tortuga-preserve-elementary-school-student-gets-special-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Year Old Tortuga Preserve Elementary School Student Gets Special Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_42414\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42414\" style=\"width: 191px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42414\" title=\"Logan Tucker\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Logan-Tucker--191x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Logan-Tucker--191x300.jpeg 191w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Logan-Tucker--654x1024.jpeg 654w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Logan-Tucker-.jpeg 1006w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42414\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Logan Tucker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Special to the Lehigh Acres Gazette<\/p>\n<p>Logan Tucker has been nominated to attend the National Youth Leadership Forum this summer. During this week-long forum, he will be able to delve into the world of medicine, discover how to program a robot, and learn detective work and crime scene investigation.<\/p>\n<p>NYLF\u00a0Pathways to STEM\u00a0is a unique learning experience for bright, forward-thinking elementary school students who will evolve into next generation innovators, engineers, doctors, software developers, and scientists.<\/p>\n<p>According to Jan A. Sikorsky, Ph.D., students learn by doing during six days of hands-on simulations and workshops, while making new friends and having unforgettable adventures.<\/p>\n<p>Virtually all career fields today require a solid foundation of STEM. That\u2019s precisely why these are the fastest growing areas of study and the reason that STEM professionals are in the highest demand in the United States and throughout the world. Early exposure to these fields can set today\u2019s kids on a path to success by giving them the tools needed to make informed decisions about the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special to the Lehigh Acres Gazette Logan Tucker has been nominated to attend the National Youth Leadership Forum this summer. During this week-long forum, he will be able to delve&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":42414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}