{"id":17205,"date":"2020-05-06T12:59:53","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T17:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=17205"},"modified":"2025-11-17T14:40:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:40:20","slug":"senior-service-makes-global-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2020\/05\/06\/senior-service-makes-global-connections\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Service Makes Global Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17207 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/memorywpstory.jpg\" alt=\"charles's senior service portraits\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/>The Senior Service Project is an opportunity for MPA students to use their voices and skills, propose, and carry out a service project with an organization or for a cause they are passionate about. All students submit a proposal, complete a minimum of 30 hours of service work, keep a record or journal of experiences, and prepare an \u00a0exhibit or presentation based on their experience.<\/p>\n<p>For his senior service project, MPA senior Charles Grimes created portraits for The Memory Project. The Memory Project is a nonprofit organization that connects artists with children throughout the world, who then get sent their portraits after completion. His portraits specifically will be sent to children in Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our participants create these portraits to help children feel valued and important, to know that many people care about their well-being, and to provide a special childhood memory in the future,&#8221; states The Memory Project as part of its mission statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senior Service Project is an opportunity for MPA students to use their voices and skills, propose, and carry out a service project with an organization or for a cause they are passionate about. All students submit a proposal, complete a minimum of 30 hours of service work, keep a record or journal of experiences, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":17208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,8,28,24,29,8127,9,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-admission","category-all-school","category-current-families","category-featured-posts","category-homepage","category-international","category-lower-school","category-middle-school","category-upper-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17205","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=17205"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29308,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17205\/revisions\/29308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}