{"id":542,"date":"2008-04-02T16:07:47","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T20:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=542"},"modified":"2008-04-02T16:07:47","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T20:07:47","slug":"tired-but-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=542","title":{"rendered":"Tired, but proud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delta&#8217;s middle school returned today from the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tntsa.org\/\">TSA<\/a> State Conference, with trophies.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/citizennetmom.com\/images\/TSAstate08.jpg\" \/>Two of the three events that I coach brought home hardware: 1st Place for  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rmstsa.com\/\">Cyberspace Pursuit<\/a> (students design and launch a website according to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/tsa.timberlakepublishing.com\/content.asp?contentid=822\">design brief<\/a>), and 2nd Place for Electronic Game Design (students design and build a working computer game within specified parameters &#8212; including no violence).<\/p>\n<p>Also, three ORHS students &#8212; all graduates of the same middle school&#8217;s program &#8212; were elected to state office today.<\/p>\n<p>Delta&#8217;s in the Electronic Game Design crew &#8212; third from the left on the front row.&nbsp; She&#8217;s pretty tickled to bring home a trophy this year.<\/p>\n<p>After four days in Pigeon Forge with 31 middle school kids, studying the school budget in between everything else, I&#8217;m exhausted.&nbsp; There&#8217;ll have to be a stop at Starbucks before tonight&#8217;s meeting.&nbsp; Even so, I&#8217;m really, really proud of all of these kids.<\/p>\n<p>And, should you be a parent of one or more of these, you should be too.&nbsp; These kids are our future, and it&#8217;s looking pretty sweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delta&#8217;s middle school returned today from the TSA State Conference, with trophies. Two of the three events that I coach brought home hardware: 1st Place for Cyberspace Pursuit (students design and launch a website according to the design brief), and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=542\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}