{"id":1722,"date":"2011-09-11T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foa.wpengine.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=1722"},"modified":"2012-09-03T20:10:25","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T00:10:25","slug":"recentgraduate-attends-duke-universitys-summer-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/news\/recentgraduate-attends-duke-universitys-summer-program","title":{"rendered":"Recent Graduate Attends Duke University\u2019s Summer Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2640\" src=\"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/WillBaur-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"Recent Five Oaks Academy Graduate\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" \/>Will Baur, graduate of Five Oaks Academy&#8217;s Middle School Program and founding student at Five Oaks Academy, Inc., attended Duke\u2019s Regional Summer Program at Appalachian State University.\u00a0 Duke offers a variety of summer programs for students who qualify in their Duke Talent Identification Program (T.I.P).<\/p>\n<p>Students qualify in the 7th grade if recommended by MAP results, to take the SAT and\/or ACT.<\/p>\n<p>The summer camp focus is on different types of study and qualifying students attend workshops paired with their academic excellence.<\/p>\n<p>Will attended \u201cAmerica and the World: Challenges and Opportunities\u201d for a three week study.\u00a0 Upon leaving the course, Duke Professors wrote:\u00a0 \u201cWill was a good addition to the classroom.\u00a0 He was well respected by his instructors and peers and contributed to a supportive learning environment for all.\u00a0 When Will participated in debates\/discussions, he captured many important points that were being overlooked.\u00a0 He was very analytically driven, and processed information with great\u00a0 depth.\u00a0 He typically brought a voice of objectivity, which was greatly appreciated.\u00a0 In his final project, he showed good creative writing ability and gave analysis with policy recommendations.\u00a0 It is clear that Will has a real excitement for learning new things and being challenged in an opportunity to grow intellectually.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Baur, graduate of Five Oaks Academy\u2019s Middle School Program and founding student at Five Oaks Academy, attends Duke\u2019s Regional Summer Program at Appalachian State University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":1874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}