{"id":568658,"date":"2010-05-18T14:20:19","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T18:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"2496"},"modified":"2010-05-18T14:20:19","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T18:20:19","slug":"cbc-gets-275000-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/568658","title":{"rendered":"CBC gets $275,000 grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><SPAN class=heading3>Aired May 17, 2010<\/SPAN><BR>By Josh Peterson, KVEW TV<\/P><P>Students at Columbia Basin College get some big money to help them graduate.<\/P><P>The college received a $275,000 grant.<\/P><P>The money will go to under-represented students pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering and math.<\/P><P>60 students will receive the financial support each year for the next five years.<\/P><P>The money is coming from the National Science Foundation.<\/P><P>Educators say it will help students go to conferences, get internships and get them excited about education.<\/P><P>&#8220;Having the opportunity to give them, so that they&#8217;re able to experience these things much sooner in their career will ensure that they are more successful sooner and that they will continue and persist rather than drop out,&#8221; said Gabriela Whitemarsh, Columbia Basin College.<\/P><P>Columbia Basin College is one of four community colleges in the state to receive the grant money.<\/P><P>Yakima Valley Community College also received money.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aired May 17, 2010By Josh Peterson, KVEW TVStudents at Columbia Basin College get some big money to help them graduate.The college received a $275,000 grant.The money will go to under-represented students pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering and math.60 students will receive the financial support each year for the next five years.The money is coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}