{"id":9775,"date":"2018-03-08T08:16:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T14:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=9775"},"modified":"2018-03-13T19:33:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T00:33:20","slug":"william-thao-named-rotarys-mpa-student-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2018\/03\/08\/william-thao-named-rotarys-mpa-student-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotary&#8217;s MPA Student of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive alignright wp-image-9776 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/WilliamWP-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Student receiving an award\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/>Senior William Thao was recognized at a breakfast last week as the Mounds Park Academy Student of the Year for the North St. Paul\/Maplewood\/Oakdale Rotary Club.\u00a0William was honored with his name on a plaque in the Upper School office, a certificate, and the opportunity to apply for a Rotary Club college scholarship. His parents, Sam Thao and Mee Vang, were present and given a gift certificate to the Lake Elmo Inn as well.<\/p>\n<p>In partnership with each school, the Rotary Club annually recognizes one high school student from each school within District 622.\u00a0Our criteria has been based on the type and amount of service that the student has done and their overall engagement with the ideals of both Rotary Club and MPA.<\/p>\n<p>Randy Comfort, director of guidance, spoke on William\u2019s behalf and introduced him to the Club. He shared that William has completed more than 100 hours of service in his career at MPA, he is an Eagle Scout, a Peer Leader, and an MPA Ambassador, and he participates in speech and debate. William selects and succeeds at very challenging courses and has had a job since he was 15. William\u2019s teachers describe him as engaged, optimistic, determined, and service oriented toward his school and the world community.<\/p>\n<p>We are so proud of William and so is the Rotary! Congratulations!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior William Thao was recognized at a breakfast last week as the Mounds Park Academy Student of the Year for the North St. Paul\/Maplewood\/Oakdale Rotary Club.\u00a0William was honored with his name on a plaque in the Upper School office, a certificate, and the opportunity to apply for a Rotary Club college scholarship. His parents, Sam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":9777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,28,24,29,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-current-families","category-featured-posts","category-homepage","category-upper-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9775","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9775"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9828,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9775\/revisions\/9828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}