{"id":3890995,"date":"2022-11-17T19:58:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T19:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exciteducation.com\/?p=3890995"},"modified":"2022-11-18T16:01:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T16:01:45","slug":"so-excited-tennent-science-teachers-earn-innovation-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exciteducation.com\/so-excited-tennent-science-teachers-earn-innovation-award\/","title":{"rendered":"So ExcitED: Tennent Science Teachers Earn Innovation Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Samantha Bambino, Lower Bucks Times- November 7, 2022<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>William Tennent science teachers Ignacio Jayo and Steve Beal understand that modern-day high school classrooms have drastically changed since they were students. Currently, there\u2019s more pressure on teens to not only achieve good grades, but also build a resume of extracurriculars and work experience before graduation.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_3891001\" style=\"width: 607px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3891001\" src=\"https:\/\/exciteducation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Steve-Ignacio-Accept-Award.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"597\" height=\"795\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3891001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exciteducation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Steve-Ignacio-Accept-Award.jpg 597w, https:\/\/exciteducation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Steve-Ignacio-Accept-Award-480x639.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 597px, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3891001\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Tennent science teachers  Steve Beal (L) and Ignacio Jayo (R) accept the 2022 Pennsylvania Innovative Teacher Award.<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nRather than pick an afterschool activity that they feel blas\u00e9 about or a shift at the local Starbucks, Jayo and Beal wanted their students to do more. Last fall, they launched ExcitED \u2014 a program that gives students paid internships in the professional fields of entrepreneurship, user design and biotechnology disciplines.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lowerbuckstimes.com\/2022\/11\/07\/so-excited-tennent-science-teachers-earn-innovation-award\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Read the full Times article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All smiles: William Tennent science teachers Steve Beal and Ignacio Jayo won the 2022 Pennsylvania Innovative Teacher Award for their creation of the ExcitED program. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3890999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"dipi_cpt_category":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exciteducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exciteducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exciteducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exciteducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exciteducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3890995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/exciteducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exciteducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3890999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exciteducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3890995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exciteducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3890995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exciteducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3890995"},{"taxonomy":"dipi_cpt_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exciteducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dipi_cpt_category?post=3890995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}