{"id":168,"date":"2016-03-15T01:02:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T01:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2016\/03\/15\/star-of-the-north-award-recipient\/"},"modified":"2016-03-15T01:02:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T01:02:29","slug":"star-of-the-north-award-recipient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mnfpsp.org\/index.php\/2016\/03\/15\/star-of-the-north-award-recipient\/","title":{"rendered":"Star of the North Award Recipient!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please congratulate Christopher Meng, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isd12.org\/schools\/middle-school\/centennial-middle-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Centennial Middle School<\/a>\u00a0on this excellent recognition!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;\">Centennial Future Problem Solver Christopher Meng is the Minnesota Educators of the Gifted and Talented (MEGT) 2016 Star of the North awardee. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;\">Christopher was recognized for academic achievement, leadership, and accomplishments in the performing arts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;\">Currently an 8th grader, he h<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-167\" style=\"float: left;\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Christopher_Meng_2016_MEGT_Award_crop-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Christopher Meng, 2016 MEGT Star of the North Award Recipient\" width=\"400\" height=\"473\" \/>as been involved in FPS since 4th grade. As a member of Global Issues Problem Solving teams representing Minnesota at\u00a0FPSP International\u00a0Competition, and was a member of the junior division multi-affiliate team that took first place at IC in 2014. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;\">Nominated by\u00a0Centennial Middle School gifted services coordinator Stephanie Roloff, Christopher&#8217;s essay submission including a theme on being persistent and not giving up, even when something is difficult. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;\">His essay emphasized the benefit of his experiences from participating in FPS, including that &#8220;problem solving and teamwork are important skills in life.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;\">On January 31, 2016 Christopher performed Bach Prelude in G, WTC Bk. 2, No 15, BWV 884, Haydn Sonate F major Hoboken XVI:23, and Chopin Waltz E minor on the piano for attendees at the\u00a0MEGT Winter Conference in Brainerd and then received the award from Lori Habben, the MEGT Star of the North Award coordinator (pictured to the left). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;\">For more information on the Star of the North award, visit\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mnegt.org\/minnesota-star-of-the-north-award\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MEGT&#8217;s website<\/a><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please congratulate Christopher Meng, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isd12.org\/schools\/middle-school\/centennial-middle-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Centennial Middle School<\/a>\u00a0on this excellent recognition!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;\">Centennial Future Problem Solver Christopher Meng is the Minnesota Educators of the Gifted and Talented (MEGT) 2016 Star of the North awardee. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;\">Christopher was recognized for academic achievement, leadership, and accomplishments in the performing arts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whtnw"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnfpsp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnfpsp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnfpsp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnfpsp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnfpsp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mnfpsp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnfpsp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnfpsp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnfpsp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnfpsp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}