{"id":1664,"date":"2014-07-15T13:30:06","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T17:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/?p=1664"},"modified":"2015-12-29T13:31:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T18:31:20","slug":"gifted-and-talented-students-to-become-authors-playwrites-and-poets-at-the-dixon-summer-center-at-washington-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/gifted-and-talented-students-to-become-authors-playwrites-and-poets-at-the-dixon-summer-center-at-washington-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Gifted and Talented Students to Become Authors, Playwrites, and Poets at The Dixon Summer Center at Washington College"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Creative Writing Center Funded By Dixon Valve and Coupling Company<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>For Immediate Release \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contact: William Reinhard, 410-767-0486<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><strong>The Dixon<\/strong> <strong>Center for Creative Writing at Washington College<\/strong> is a creative writing program for students entering grades 7-12 where students will have the opportunity to become an author, playwright, or poet \u2013 becoming an author among authors as they discuss published masters of style, respond to pieces in progress, and compose their own written works.<br \/>\n. <strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><br \/>\nThe<strong><em> 2014 Maryland Summer Centers Program<\/em><\/strong> continues a 46 year commitment at the State level to provide summer educational opportunities for Maryland\u2019s gifted and talented students. The program, coordinated through the Maryland State Department of Education, in partnership with public and nonpublic agencies, provides Maryland\u2019s diverse gifted and talented student population with advanced, rigorous, experiential learning opportunities that nurture these students\u2019 talents and abilities within unique learning environments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHO<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0Students entering grades 7-9 interested learning the power of the written word to amuse, inform, and persuade, while honing their craft on state-of-the-art computers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEN:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>July 14-24\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a08:15 a.m. \u2013 2:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHERE:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Washington College, Kent County<br \/>\n300 Washington Avenue<br \/>\nChestertown, Maryland 21620<br \/>\n(410-778-7624)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creative Writing Center Funded By Dixon Valve and Coupling Company<br \/>\nFor Immediate Release \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contact: William Reinhard, 410-767-0486<br \/>\nWHAT:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Dixon Center for Creative Writing at Washington College <a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/gifted-and-talented-students-to-become-authors-playwrites-and-poets-at-the-dixon-summer-center-at-washington-college\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[105,87,19],"class_list":["post-1664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-newsreleases","tag-gifted-and-talented","tag-gifted-and-talented-program","tag-gifted-and-talented-students"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1665,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions\/1665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}