{"id":27552,"date":"2024-11-14T14:56:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T19:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=27552"},"modified":"2024-11-14T14:56:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T19:56:25","slug":"prevention-empowerment-partnership-to-host-lego-event-nov-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2024\/11\/prevention-empowerment-partnership-to-host-lego-event-nov-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Prevention Empowerment Partnership to host Lego event Nov. 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Prevention Empowerment Partnership (PEP) is sponsoring a Community Lego block competition at the Fairfield Community Center from 4 &#8211; 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 20. Teams of four to six middle and\/or high school youth will have one hour to build the project as instructed using the supplied materials. Judges will award first, second and third prizes to each team member who wins.<\/p>\n<p>The Prevention Empowerment Partnership (PEP), a part of the Marshall University Center of Excellence in the Marshall University Research Corporation, is a collaborative coalition of community-based members and organizations that partners to increase access to comprehensive prevention services for youth and families in Cabell County and surrounding areas. The partnership empowers youth to affect positive change in their communities and prioritize prevention throughout their lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is going to be an amazing community outreach event, and we are excited to provide this fun, interactive activity for middle and high school youth in the Huntington community,\u201d said Angela Saunders, director of PEP.<\/p>\n<p>PEP will also provide participants at the Lego event with snacks and a party favor.<\/p>\n<p>Door prizes of Lego or block sets will also be raffled off during the event for those in attendance. To join in the fun and showcase your creativity and building skills, please contact Tasha Hall at <a href=\"mailto:hall283@marshall.edu\">hall283@marshall.edu<\/a> or through PEP\u2019s Facebook page at PEPWV to register your team.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prevention Empowerment Partnership (PEP) is sponsoring a Community Lego block competition at the Fairfield Community Center from 4 &#8211; 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 20. Teams of four to six middle and\/or high school youth will have one hour to build the project as instructed using the supplied materials. Judges will award first, second and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-murc","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27552","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\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27552"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27556,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27552\/revisions\/27556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}