{"id":77481,"date":"2016-06-25T07:27:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T12:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=77481"},"modified":"2016-06-25T07:27:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T12:27:51","slug":"central-sponsors-summer-tech-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/06\/25\/central-sponsors-summer-tech-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Central sponsors summer Tech Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Central Insurance recently held its inaugural summer Tech Camp for students entering grades 7-8.<\/p>\n<p>The weeklong camp included interactive, hands-on projects to give the students a glimpse into future career possibilities in computer programming and multimedia design. Students designed and built their own video games using block code, created commercials using green screen technology, explored the ins and outs of a computer, and improved their creative problem-solving skills.<\/p>\n<p>The Central Insurance Companies Educational &amp; Charitable Foundation and the Van Wert County Foundation sponsor the camps.\u00a0Visit Central\u2019s Facebook page (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Central.Insurance\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Central.Insurance\/<\/a>) for more photos from the camp.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Central-Tech-Camp-2016-first-week-group.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77482\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77482\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Central-Tech-Camp-2016-first-week-group.jpg\" alt=\"Central Tech Camp 2016-first week group\" width=\"545\" height=\"296\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>First week camp attendees include (front row, from the left) Kaygen Bogle, Erik Falk, Joshua Haines, Cole Gorman, Evan Mongold, Kaden Baer; (middle row) JW Taylor, Madison DeAmicis, Hanna Say, Zadria King, Miah Miller, Jesse Gunsett; (back row) Evan Sroufe, Kayla Krites, Kaden Thomas, Bregen Boaz, and Gannon Boyd. <\/strong><em>(Central photos)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Central-Tech-Camp-2016-second-week-group.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77483\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77483\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Central-Tech-Camp-2016-second-week-group.jpg\" alt=\"Central Tech Camp 2016-second week group\" width=\"545\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Second week camp attendees include (front row, from the left)<\/strong> <strong>Owen Harris, Anna Partin, Dan Miller, Connor Johnson; (middle row) Christian Adams, Anna Wasson, Sam Moonshower, Caleb Price, and Sam Wolfrum; (back row) Rachel Spath, Jacob Wasson, Bobby Spath, KeAndre Blythe, Ethan White, and Nathan Evans.\u2028Not pictured: Taylor Springer.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information Central Insurance recently held its inaugural summer Tech Camp for students entering grades 7-8. The weeklong camp included interactive, hands-on projects to give the students a glimpse into future career possibilities in computer programming and multimedia design. Students designed and built their own video games using block code, created commercials using green [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 22:08:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}