{"id":25928,"date":"2023-10-26T14:07:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T18:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=25928"},"modified":"2023-10-26T14:07:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T18:07:37","slug":"early-education-steam-center-to-open-toddler-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2023\/10\/early-education-steam-center-to-open-toddler-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Education STEAM center to open toddler classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif\">A grand opening and ribbon-cutting for the newest classroom in the Marshall University Early Education STEAM Center will take place at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 3, at the center, which is located in Corbly Hall on Marshall&#8217;s Huntington campus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif\">The newly renovated classroom is designed for toddler-aged children ages 2 to 3 years old. Children of Marshall faculty, staff and students receive priority registration. Space is available for 12 children during the operating hours of 7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif\">&#8220;We welcome the Marshall community and the greater Huntington community to celebrate with us and to learn more about our program,&#8221; said Dr. Maggie Luma, chief of staff for the June Harless Center, which operates the STEAM Center. &#8220;We believe that opening new, high-quality child care options invites a diverse workforce to the area and benefits our local economy.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\";font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif\">Luma added that by inviting pre-service teachers and graduate assistants from Marshall&#8217;s College of Education and Professional Development to work and observe in the center&#8217;s classrooms benefits the future teaching workforce. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\";font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif\">This event is expected to be approximately one hour long and will include the ribbon-cutting, a welcome from the center&#8217;s director, networking with light refreshments, and a tour of the\u00a0 new space.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A grand opening and ribbon-cutting for the newest classroom in the Marshall University Early Education STEAM Center will take place at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 3, at the center, which is located in Corbly Hall on Marshall&#8217;s Huntington campus.\u00a0 The newly renovated classroom is designed for toddler-aged children ages 2 to 3 years old. Children [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":25929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,45,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coepd","category-featured","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25930,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25928\/revisions\/25930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}