{"id":123411,"date":"2022-04-27T11:35:20","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T15:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=123411"},"modified":"2022-04-27T16:40:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T20:40:22","slug":"creating-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2022\/04\/27\/creating-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/student-success\/career-services\">Career Services<\/a>\u00a0at Wright State University has a new tool to help engage students and connect them with people and resources.<\/p>\n<p>Cindy Garman, a career consultant in Career Services, had an idea to build a mobile beverage cart to spark conversation during campus events. With a $2,000 grant from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/giving\/students-first-fund\">Wright State University Foundation&#8217;s Students First Fund<\/a> and help from <a href=\"https:\/\/engineering-computer-science.wright.edu\/mechanical-and-materials-engineering\/bachelor-of-science-in-mechanical-engineering\">mechanical engineering<\/a> students, the idea came to fruition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was like a kid in a candy store,\u201d said Garman. \u201cI was happy when they accepted the project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As part of their senior design capstone project, Collin Thompson, Josh Zizka, Cameron Berner and Bernadette West designed and built the beverage cart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has been a learning process,\u201d said West. \u201cThe team that we have, for some of us this was the first time ever meeting each other so it\u2019s sort of like a good representative of real life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Students completed the design and build during the Fall and Spring Semesters. The cart features a throttle, steering mechanism, emergency stop switch, beverage storage spaces, cooler and umbrella stand.<\/p>\n<p>The mechanical engineering students presented the beverage cart to Career Services staff during their Spring Capstone Design Expo presentation on April 23.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was beyond ecstatic when I saw it,\u201d said Garman. \u201cThe best part about it, it\u2019s for students, built by students at Wright State.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Career Services at Wright State has a new tool to help engage students and connect them with people and resources. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2022\/04\/27\/creating-conversation\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":123415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,2034,743,725,727,4269,715,18,4843],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-career-services","category-engineering-computer-science","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-mechanical-and-materials-engineering","category-news","category-research","category-students-first-fund"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123411"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123559,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123411\/revisions\/123559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}