{"id":13022,"date":"2024-04-22T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/?p=13022"},"modified":"2024-04-18T13:01:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T18:01:33","slug":"fish-founder-presented-2024-student-heroes-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/2024\/04\/22\/fish-founder-presented-2024-student-heroes-award\/","title":{"rendered":"FISH founder presented 2024 Student Heroes Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Alexis Wright co-founded Fishing Inspires Special Hearts (F.I.S.H.) to enrich the lives of children with special needs by providing the opportunity to spend time outdoors and get hooked on fishing. During a one-day event each summer, special anglers are paired with experienced fishermen to try to catch the big one! With a double major in special education and elementary education along with a minor in business administration, Alexis found the perfect way to combine her love of fishing with her passion of working with special needs children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For her efforts, Alexis was presented the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/cps\/college-of-professional-studies\/giving\/heroes-awards\/\">2024 College of Professional Studies Dick Cable and Judy Cable Anderson Student Heroes Award<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7zOs5rxQsZw\">Watch her story<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2024 UWSP College of Professional Studies Student Heroes Award: Alexis Wright\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7zOs5rxQsZw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexis Wright co-founded Fishing Inspires Special Hearts (F.I.S.H.) to enrich the lives of children with special needs by providing the opportunity to spend time outdoors and get hooked on fishing. During a one-day event each summer, special anglers are paired with experienced fishermen to try to catch the big one! With a double major in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9,12,13],"tags":[341,342,343,344],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13022"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13026,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13022\/revisions\/13026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}