{"id":338,"date":"2011-10-26T22:51:26","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T02:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vassar.edu\/vast\/?p=338"},"modified":"2015-05-05T19:34:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T23:34:19","slug":"vast-family-orientation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"VAST Family Orientation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VAST families attended a beginning of the year orientation dinner at the Poughkeepsie Middle School cafeteria on Friday, September 30th. Parents and guardians accompanied scholars to an orientation conducted by the VAST administration and select mentors. Changes such as the introduction of tutoring on Fridays were announced, the importance of open and constant communication was highlighted amongst other pertinent issues. All in all VAST stakeholders appeared in sync with the tone for the year: Onward!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_339\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/files\/2011\/10\/IMG_1567.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-339\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-339\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/files\/2011\/10\/IMG_1567-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/files\/2011\/10\/IMG_1567-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/files\/2011\/10\/IMG_1567-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-339\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francis, first year mentor Kyle and friend of Vast Elysia serve dinner, catered by Rossi&#8217;s, to VAST families.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_341\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/files\/2011\/10\/IMG_1571-e1319677199776.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-341\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-341\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/files\/2011\/10\/IMG_1571-e1319677199776-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/files\/2011\/10\/IMG_1571-e1319677199776-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/files\/2011\/10\/IMG_1571-e1319677199776-1024x787.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/files\/2011\/10\/IMG_1571-e1319677199776.jpg 1624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-341\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former VAST fellow Karishma and Francis hand out certificates to outstanding 2010\/2011 VAST Scholars while Jazmin, exploring college fellow,\u00a0 looks on.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VAST families attended a beginning of the year orientation dinner at the Poughkeepsie Middle School cafeteria on Friday, September 30th. Parents and guardians accompanied scholars to an orientation conducted by the VAST administration and select mentors. Changes such as the introduction of tutoring on Fridays were announced, the importance of open and constant communication was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4632,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6976,6979,6980,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mentor-resources","category-parent-resources","category-campus-events","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1694,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/1694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}