{"id":19331,"date":"2021-03-09T12:23:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T18:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=19331"},"modified":"2021-03-09T12:23:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T18:23:09","slug":"two-mpa-students-named-mn-escape-the-vape-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2021\/03\/09\/two-mpa-students-named-mn-escape-the-vape-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Two MPA Students Named MN Escape The Vape Finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19334 alignright img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/vidwpstory.jpg\" alt=\"Trevor and Akshay's video\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/>MPA ninth graders Trevor Lien and Akshay Somayajula were named finalists for the recent Minnesota Youth Council Escape the Vape video contest! Escape the Vape is a vaping and e-cigarette prevention video contest for Minnesota high school students. The top five finalists (of 110 statewide entries) were selected by the Minnesota Youth Council (MYC), a statewide group of youth leaders who work to create equitable systems through youth-led outreach, education, and advocacy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/umn.edu\/escape-the-vape\/home\/voting-5-finalists\">Watch and vote for their submission here!<\/a> The first place winner receives $500 for the entrant and $500 for their school or organization and second place receives $250 for the entrant and $250 for their school or organization Public voting closes on March 23 at 11:59 PM.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about the contest, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/MNEscapeTheVape.com\">MNEscapeTheVape.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MPA ninth graders Trevor Lien and Akshay Somayajula were named finalists for the recent Minnesota Youth Council Escape the Vape video contest! Escape the Vape is a vaping and e-cigarette prevention video contest for Minnesota high school students. The top five finalists (of 110 statewide entries) were selected by the Minnesota Youth Council (MYC), a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":19335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28,24,29,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-school","category-current-families","category-featured-posts","category-homepage","category-upper-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19331","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=19331"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19336,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19331\/revisions\/19336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}