{"id":946,"date":"2015-12-09T22:13:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T22:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=946"},"modified":"2015-12-12T14:10:53","modified_gmt":"2015-12-12T14:10:53","slug":"teens-nonprofit-tutors-hundreds-of-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=946","title":{"rendered":"Teen&#8217;s nonprofit tutors hundreds of kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_952\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-952\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/201.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-952\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-952\" src=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/201-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/201-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/201-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/201-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/201-1200x898.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arvind Chava (left) tutors Katherine Fonseca, 10<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Arvind Chava believes that a good education is the pathway to a better life. And the 17-year-old high school senior is doing something about it \u2014 not only for himself, but also for hundreds of children in southeastern Fairfax County.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/fairfax-teens-nonprofit-tutors-hundreds-of-children\/2015\/12\/07\/f97d7904-9cff-11e5-8728-1af6af208198_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">he started STEMWISE, a nonprofit organization that provides after-school tutoring and online classes to about 400 children<\/a>, many of whom are from low-income families. Through the program, Arvind and about 50 of his classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology help children with math and science at 10 community centers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/fairfax-teens-nonprofit-tutors-hundreds-of-children\/2015\/12\/07\/f97d7904-9cff-11e5-8728-1af6af208198_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Washington Post, December 9, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arvind Chava believes that a good education is the pathway to a better life. And the 17-year-old high school senior is doing something about it \u2014 not only for himself, but also for hundreds of children in southeastern Fairfax County. Two years ago, he started STEMWISE, a nonprofit organization that provides after-school tutoring and online &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=946\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Teen&#8217;s nonprofit tutors hundreds of kids&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[131,107,124,68,6,19],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-alexandria","tag-education","tag-fairfax-county","tag-nonprofit","tag-schools","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":953,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions\/953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}