{"id":1815,"date":"2016-04-03T13:33:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T20:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carsonforward.org\/?p=1815"},"modified":"2021-05-23T13:55:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T20:55:36","slug":"tesoro-corp-funds-stem-program-for-middle-school-school-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carsonforward.org\/?p=1815","title":{"rendered":"Tesoro Corp. Funds STEM Program for Middle School School Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/carsonforward.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tesoro1-e1459283643461.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1690\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1690 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/carsonforward.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tesoro1-e1459283643461.jpg\" alt=\"tesoro1\" width=\"89\" height=\"100\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tesoro Corp. Funds STEM Program for Middle School School Students<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A generous $450,000, three-year commitment from the Tesoro Corporation to the Boys &amp; Girls Club of Carson (BGCC) will help dozens of children gain a solid foundation in preparation for possible futures built on skills in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.&nbsp; The goal of STEM programs nationwide is to prod kids\u2019 curiosity and creativity to produce original ideas, objects, and structures using concepts and skills from math, science, and technology.&nbsp; Providing STEM education for grades pre-school through 12 is a national priority announced earlier this year by the U.S. Department of Education.&nbsp; The Tesoro gift will fund a full-time STEM coordinator at the BGCC to develop programs, and train staff &nbsp;in developing appropriate activities that will integrate what kids are learning in school, and guide them to additional opportunities for exploring and creating related projects.<\/p>\n<p>Tesoro is an independent refiner and marketer of petroleum products.&nbsp; Its refinery is located in Carson is the largest refinery on the West Coast, employing about 1,450 full-time workers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Visit the Boys &amp; Girls Club of Carson at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bgccarson.org\/\">http:\/\/www.bgccarson.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesoro Corp. Funds STEM Program for Middle School School Students A generous $450,000, three-year commitment from the Tesoro Corporation to the Boys &amp; Girls Club of Carson (BGCC) will help dozens of children gain a solid foundation in preparation for possible futures built on skills in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.&nbsp; The goal of STEM&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outreach","category-highlight-business","wpcat-24-id","wpcat-43-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsonforward.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsonforward.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsonforward.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsonforward.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsonforward.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1815"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carsonforward.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3288,"href":"https:\/\/carsonforward.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions\/3288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsonforward.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsonforward.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsonforward.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsonforward.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}