{"id":1508,"date":"2018-12-10T15:49:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T20:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cs.uky.edu\/~baker\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2019-03-01T14:23:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T19:23:49","slug":"mayor-announces-metro-c-a-t-s-program-at-charles-young-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/netrecon.usc.edu\/baker\/mayor-announces-metro-c-a-t-s-program-at-charles-young-center\/","title":{"rendered":"WKYT: Mayor Announces METRO C.A.T.S. Program at Charles Young Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space tablet_height=”20″ mobile_height=”10″][vc_column_text]LEXINGTON, Ky. (Dec. 10, 2018) \u2014\u00a0<\/strong>Mayor Jim Gray has announced that MetroNet and the City of Lexington have partnered to create METRO C.A.T.S., a gig-fueled after-school course for Lexington Traditional Magnet School students (LTMS)\u00a0at the Charles Young Center. The program, to begin in January, deploys students from the College of Engineering<\/a> at the University of Kentucky to teach middle school students about digital literacy and, eventually, computer programming.\"\"<\/p>\n

The C.A.T.S. in the program name stands for Computer Access to Succeed. The team that created the unique program was led by Susie Smith, a UK senior, while she was a Fellow in Mayor Gray\u2019s office during the summer of 2018.\u00a0Corey Baker, assistant professor of computer science<\/a>, also played an integral role.<\/p>\n

Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space tablet_height=”20″ mobile_height=”10″][vc_column_text]LEXINGTON, Ky. (Dec. 10, 2018) \u2014\u00a0Mayor Jim Gray has announced that MetroNet and the City of Lexington have partnered to create METRO C.A.T.S., a gig-fueled after-school course for Lexington Traditional Magnet School students (LTMS)\u00a0at the Charles Young Center. The program, to begin in January, deploys students from the College of Engineering at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,36],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-1508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-press-articles","tag-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Y4AP-ok","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/netrecon.usc.edu\/baker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/netrecon.usc.edu\/baker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/netrecon.usc.edu\/baker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netrecon.usc.edu\/baker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netrecon.usc.edu\/baker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/netrecon.usc.edu\/baker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1604,"href":"https:\/\/netrecon.usc.edu\/baker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions\/1604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/netrecon.usc.edu\/baker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netrecon.usc.edu\/baker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netrecon.usc.edu\/baker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}