{"id":84,"date":"2008-07-24T17:31:18","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T00:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:28:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:28:46","slug":"summer-teaching-discover-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/summer-teaching-discover-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Teaching: Discover Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always hope that a pause in the stream of weblog posts will be justified.  The last several weeks have been pretty quiet around prefrontal.org, but I do like to think that the time went to a good cause.<\/p>\n<p>For most of July I have been in Lawrence, Kansas as an instructor for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ku.edu\/~ets\/\">KU Educational Talent Search<\/a> summer camp &#8216;Discover Technology&#8217;.  Talent Search is an educational opportunity program whose main goal is to shepherd students from underrepresented backgrounds though high school and encourage them to engage in post-secondary education.  The Discover Technology summer camp is just one part of this year-round program.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/dt2008-teampic.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"dt2008-teampic\" width=\"480\" height=\"287\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I have been an instructor for Discover Technology for almost 10 years now.  What brings me back year after year?  Well, they pay me for my time, which is a plus.  The biggest motivator though is that the course genuinely impacts the lives of the students.  The graduation rate of most Kansas City, Kansas high schools is around 50% &#8211; Talent Search gets over 95% of their students through to their graduation.  That is huge, and definitely worth a little time and effort on my part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always hope that a pause in the stream of weblog posts will be justified. The last several weeks have been pretty quiet around prefrontal.org, but I do like to think that the time went to a good cause. For most of July I have been in Lawrence, Kansas as an instructor for the KU [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta","category-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}