{"id":13231,"date":"2019-05-20T11:29:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T16:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=13231"},"modified":"2021-01-06T11:27:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T17:27:36","slug":"pa-chia-thao-13-speaks-at-annual-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2019\/05\/20\/pa-chia-thao-13-speaks-at-annual-gala\/","title":{"rendered":"Pa Chia Thao &#8217;13 Speaks At Booyah Bash 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive alignright wp-image-13233 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/thaowpstory-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Pa Chia Thao '13 speaking at the Booyah Bash gala\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/>MPA alum Pa Chia Thao \u201913 was a featured speaker at this year\u2019s Breakthrough Twin Cities annual gala, the Booyah Bash. Pa Chia is a Mount Holyoke College Class of 2017 alumna majoring in astronomy and physics. She shared about the impact of Breakthrough Twin Cities and Mounds Park Academy during her remarks.<\/p>\n<p>This fall, Pa Chia will be pursuing a Ph.D. in Astrophysics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, and a Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholar. Her current research is in understanding how planets beyond our own solar system formed and evolved throughout their lifetime. Congrats to Pa Chia as she continues to make an impact on the world through her studies and research!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breakthroughtwincities.org\/yusanat-tway-booyah-bash-2019-speech-2\/\">Read Pa Chia\u2019s full speech here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MPA alum Pa Chia Thao \u201913 was a featured speaker at this year\u2019s Breakthrough Twin Cities annual gala, the Booyah Bash. Pa Chia is a Mount Holyoke College Class of 2017 alumna majoring in astronomy and physics. She shared about the impact of Breakthrough Twin Cities and Mounds Park Academy during her remarks. This fall, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":13234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,19,28,10030,24,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-school","category-alumni","category-current-families","category-deb","category-featured-posts","category-homepage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13231"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13239,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13231\/revisions\/13239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}