{"id":2289,"date":"2017-05-16T11:23:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T18:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/?p=2289"},"modified":"2017-05-16T11:23:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T18:23:16","slug":"greetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/2017\/05\/16\/greetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Greetings!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Hello all from wet and hot Thailand!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">My name is Ryan and I am the Vice Principal of the British Columbia International School of Bangkok.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I am currently taking three courses so will be at luck number 8 by the end of this semester.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">From an administrator&#8217;s perspective, I really want to learn ways to support STEM in my school and empower students through this. I recently hired an actual computer science teacher with experience in the field and a teaching degree and I couldn\u2019t be more excited about collaborating.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">When I worked as teacher in Qatar I took up robotics as an after school club and this turned into my kids competing in the national robotic olympiad, placing 4th overall. I\u2019ve since been keenly interested in learning programming and being forward thinking in my school planning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Looking forward to learning with everyone!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello all from wet and hot Thailand! My name is Ryan and I am the Vice Principal of the British Columbia International School of Bangkok. I am currently taking three courses so will be at luck number 8 by the end of this semester. From an administrator&#8217;s perspective, I really want to learn ways to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34496,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1669395],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-introductions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2290,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions\/2290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}