{"id":1394,"date":"2019-07-31T14:40:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T20:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2019-07-31T14:40:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T20:40:44","slug":"ssc-gear-up-students-attend-youth-leadership-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/ssc-gear-up-students-attend-youth-leadership-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"SSC GEAR UP Students Attend Youth Leadership Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eight Seminole State College GEAR UP students were among 200 selected from approximately 700,000 across the United States to attend and participate in the 2019 Youth Leadership Summit (YLS) during the annual National GEAR UP conference July 14-17, 2019 in San Francisco, CA. <\/p>\n\n\n

The YLS helped rising high school\nstudents identify and maximize their leadership skills, create a national\nnetwork of peers, and receive the tools and training to make positive change in\ntheir schools and communities. Student experiences included opportunities to\nspeak more confidently and work more effectively in teams.  The YLS culminated with a student-led\npresentation to the 2,100 attendees of the National GEAR UP conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The participating students included\nJode Cogburn of Seminole, Tessa Cooper of Prague, Amberlynn Mathews of\nSeminole, Callie Ramsey of Wewoka, Avery Short of Asher, Avery Terrell of\nPrague, Jagger Tiger of Varnum, and Morgan Ware of Konawa. The eight students\nhad the opportunity after YLS to remain in San Francisco for two days and tour\nStanford and the University of California at Berkeley with SSC GEAR UP staff\nand chaperones. Other sites visited included the Golden Gate Bridge,\nFisherman\u2019s Wharf at Pier 39 and the Science Exploratorium. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eight Seminole State College GEAR UP students were among 200 selected from approximately 700,000 across the United States to attend and participate in the 2019 Youth Leadership Summit (YLS) during the annual National GEAR UP conference July 14-17, 2019 in San Francisco, CA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grant-programs","tag-july-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1396,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions\/1396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}