{"id":8920,"date":"2021-03-09T15:25:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T20:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=8920"},"modified":"2021-03-09T15:25:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T20:25:45","slug":"barnetts-provide-fund-new-steam-room-at-the-pace-center-for-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/03\/09\/barnetts-provide-fund-new-steam-room-at-the-pace-center-for-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Barnetts provide fund new STEAM room at the Pace Center for Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Pace Center for Girls in Lakeland bought some NASA-level tools recently to help students with their STEAM skills \u2014 all thanks to a donation from Nick and Ashley Gibson Barnett.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe are so pleased to see the Center for Collaboration come to life for the girls at Pace\u2019s Polk center,\u201d the\u00a0Barnetts\u00a0said in a prepared statement. \u201cWe\u2019ve been inspired by the work Pace is doing for girls, and we\u2019re incredibly honored to contribute to these efforts by funding this maker space for STEAM learning. We truly believe the future is female and education is the key to help girls find their passions early on.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Barnetts donated $30,000 for the center, which includes computers, the 3D printer, the 35-mm camera, photography and video studio and artificial realty goggles. Nick Barnett is the grandson of Publix founder George Jenkins and the son of Carol Jenkins Barnett and Barny Barnett, Lakeland philanthropists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pace is a year-round school for girls ages 11 to 18 and provides academic and social services during regular school hours in a safe, supportive environment tailored to girls\u2019 needs. They emphasize relationships, relevant life skills and the cultivation of girls\u2019 strengths. A low team member-to-girl ratio allows staff to get to know each girl as an individual.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Pace Center for Girls recently celebrated its 20th anniversary in Lakeland and the organization\u2019s 35th anniversary. It was founded in 1985 with 10 girls at one center in Jacksonville and has grown to serve more than 3,000 girls each year in 22 locations in Florida and Georgia \u2014 helping more than 40,000 since its inception and becoming a leading advocate in the state for the needs of girls.  Executive Director Ellen Katzman said Pace Center for Girls Polk is the first center in the state to obtain a STEAM center. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Pace Center for Girls in Lakeland bought some NASA-level tools recently to help students with their STEAM skills \u2014 all thanks to a donation from Nick and Ashley Gibson Barnett. \u201cWe are so pleased to see the Center… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}