{"id":7071,"date":"2016-05-03T21:25:32","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T21:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=7071"},"modified":"2016-05-03T21:25:32","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T21:25:32","slug":"sam-graves-16-quoted-in-star-tribune-article-on-technology-and-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2016\/05\/03\/sam-graves-16-quoted-in-star-tribune-article-on-technology-and-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Graves &#8217;16 quoted in Star Tribune article on technology and education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/StarTrib-e1400513865356.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3927\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/StarTrib-e1400513865356.jpeg\" alt=\"Minneapolis Star Tribune - logo\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>The Minneapolis Star Tribune recently included a statement by <strong>Sam Graves &#8217;16<\/strong> in an article covering a large donation to the PACER Center, which specializes in creating technology designed for children and young adults with special needs. The $1 million donation was given by the Otto Bremer Trust.<\/p>\n<p>Graves, a recent Augsburg College graduate who lives with cerebral palsy, credits the Center&#8217;s library of software and adaptive devices as part of his educational success. &#8220;Without technology, I wouldn\u2019t be able to be independent,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Graves graduated with honors April 30 and was awarded the first-ever Youth Leadership Award by the Otto Bremer Trust later that evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-headline\">Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/pacer-center-awarded-1-million-by-otto-bremer-trust\/377701631\/\">PACER Center awarded $1 million by Otto Bremer Trust<\/a> on the Star Tribune site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minneapolis Star Tribune recently included a statement by Sam Graves &#8217;16 in an article covering a large donation to the PACER Center, which specializes in creating technology designed for children and young adults with special needs. The $1 million donation was given by the Otto Bremer Trust. Graves, a recent Augsburg College graduate who &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[657,902,3860,3859,2818],"class_list":["post-7071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","tag-commencement","tag-education","tag-pacer-center","tag-sam-graves","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7071"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7084,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7071\/revisions\/7084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}