{"id":672,"date":"2012-08-28T16:37:51","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T20:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/?p=672"},"modified":"2015-05-05T19:40:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T23:40:40","slug":"welcome-back-to-a-new-year-of-vast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/?p=672","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Back to a New Year of VAST!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings all VAST mentors, students, and parents!<\/p>\n<p>My name is Rachel Gorman and I will be the new VAST Fellow for the 2012-2013 school year. Sadly, Francis Meyo returned home to Nairobi, Kenya so he will not be involved with VAST anymore. He has taught me all about the program so I am prepared to be the new Francis this year. I&#8217;m very excited for VAST to start!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/files\/2012\/08\/ExploringCollege_12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-673\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/files\/2012\/08\/ExploringCollege_12-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/files\/2012\/08\/ExploringCollege_12-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/files\/2012\/08\/ExploringCollege_12-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">A little bit about me: I graduated from Vassar in May 2012. My major was History, and I completed two correlates in Education and Hispanic Studies. I am from Albany, NY and I went to Albany High School. I hope to continue studying education and maybe become a high school teacher someday. I can&#8217;t wait to get to know all of you so please feel free to stop by the Education Department office in the Old Observatory to introduce yourself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>The first day of VAST will be Monday October 1<\/strong>, but we have a lot of work to do before then. <strong>Mentor and scholar applications are due Wednesday, September 19.<\/strong> The applications can be found under the &#8220;Applications&#8221; tab on the top menu, and I&#8217;ll also be emailing them out to returning mentors and scholars. I will continue to update the blog and send emails about important dates in September, like mentor orientation and training sessions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">If you have any questions, please don&#8217;t hesitate to email <strong>vast@vassar.edu<\/strong>, or <strong>racgorman@vassar.edu<\/strong> if you would like it sent straight to me personally.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Talk to you soon!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">-Rachel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings all VAST mentors, students, and parents! My name is Rachel Gorman and I will be the new VAST Fellow for the 2012-2013 school year. Sadly, Francis Meyo returned home to Nairobi, Kenya so he will not be involved with VAST anymore. He has taught me all about the program so I am prepared to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29023,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-applications","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1709,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/1709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}