{"id":3520,"date":"2016-05-20T11:04:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T17:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/?p=3520"},"modified":"2016-05-20T11:05:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T17:05:35","slug":"bctal-receives-grant-to-implement-nationally-recognized-high-tech-manufacturing-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/bctal-receives-grant-to-implement-nationally-recognized-high-tech-manufacturing-course\/","title":{"rendered":"BCTAL Receives Grant to Implement Nationally Recognized High-Tech Manufacturing Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Picture1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3522 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Picture1.png\" alt=\"Picture1\" width=\"320\" height=\"106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Picture1.png 320w, https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Picture1-300x99.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Picture1-82x27.png 82w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>North Richland Hills, Texas \u2013 <\/strong>The Birdville Center of Technology and Advanced Learning (BCTAL) announced today that it is the recipient of a $25,000 grant from Project Lead The Way (PLTW) to implement PLTW\u2019s Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) course, which will introduce more students to modern manufacturing and career pathways, and prepare them with knowledge and skills related to the advanced manufacturing sector. PLTW is a nonprofit organization that provides a transformative learning experience for K\u201312 students and teachers, and BCTAL joins more than 8,000 schools across the U.S. in offering PLTW courses to students. The grant was made possible by a generous donation from the Toyota USA Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Toyota-CIM-2016-17_School-Press-Rel.revised1.pdf\">&gt; View Press Release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Richland Hills, Texas \u2013 The Birdville Center of Technology and Advanced Learning (BCTAL) announced today that it is the recipient of a $25,000 grant from Project Lead The Way (PLTW) to implement PLTW\u2019s Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) course, which will introduce more students to modern manufacturing and career pathways, and prepare them with knowledge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[104,131,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bisdshines","category-wearebirdvilleisd","category-bctal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p76FL9-UM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3524,"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520\/revisions\/3524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}