{"id":1302,"date":"2013-04-23T14:58:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T18:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/04\/23\/have-award-will-travel\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:43:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:43:01","slug":"have-award-will-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/have-award-will-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Have teaching award, will travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6704\" style=\"width: 181px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/steve-ahn.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6704\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6704 lazyload\" title=\"steve-ahn\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/steve-ahn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"171\" height=\"221\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 171px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 171\/221;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6704\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Ahn<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A trip to Norway and Finland is in Furman grad Steve Ahn&#8217;s future. A biology and earth science teacher at Abingdon (Va.) High School, Ahn received the 2013 McGlothlin Award for Teaching at the secondary level. The award includes a $25,000 prize, $10,000 of which must be used on an international trip.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The idea is to use it to bring the world back to your classroom,&#8221; said Thomas D. McGlothlin, president of The McGlothlin Foundation. &#8220;We award the best teachers out there and keep them in the classroom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ahn, who graduated from Furman in 1995 with a degree in biology, has taught at Abingdon High for four years and has been a teacher for 16.\u00a0 He was an All-Southern Conference goalie for the men\u2019s soccer team while attending Furman.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tricities.com\/news\/local\/article_d03129a6-a94b-11e2-92f4-001a4bcf6878.html\">Read the article at TriCities.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trip to Norway and Finland is in Furman grad Steve Ahn&#8217;s future. A biology and earth science teacher at Abingdon (Va.) High School, Ahn received the 2013 McGlothlin Award for Teaching at the secondary level. The award includes a $25,000 prize, $10,000 of which must be used on an international trip. Ahn, who graduated from Furman in 1995 with a degree in biology, was an All-Southern Conference goalie for the men\u2019s soccer team while attending the university.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}