{"id":8174,"date":"2013-08-06T16:02:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T20:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=8174"},"modified":"2013-08-06T16:02:55","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T20:02:55","slug":"college-and-career-expo-at-lincoln-u-aug-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=8174","title":{"rendered":"College and Career Expo at Lincoln U., Aug. 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/LincolChescoFutures.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8175\" alt=\"LincolChescoFutures\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/LincolChescoFutures-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/LincolChescoFutures-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/LincolChescoFutures-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/LincolChescoFutures.jpg 366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>EXTON \u2014 Chester County Futures will host its Annual College and Career Expo at Lincoln University on Thursday, Aug. 8.<\/p>\n<p>Over 220 local students from the program will spend the day meeting college admissions representatives, career presenters and attending workshops.\u00a0 The day will begin with special remarks from Brian C. Zwaan, President of Penn Liberty Bank and Board Member of Elite Companies Charitable Foundation.\u00a0 Dr. Darlyne Bailey, Dean and Professor at the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research at Bryn Mawr College will give the keynote address to the students.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Zwaan feels strongly about the program stating \u201cPenn Liberty Bank is thrilled to be involved with Chester County Futures helping students on their journey to higher education.\u00a0 We realize that the future success of our communities relies upon the next generation and this program helps to insure that success.\u201d<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The theme for this year\u2019s expo is <i>Choose Success.\u00a0<\/i>Downingtown native and former Syracuse University football star,Rob Long will tell his inspirational story about his personal battle with brain cancer.\u00a0 Rob chose to fight through his illness to complete his undergraduate degree and continues to pursue his dream to play for the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>Students will have the opportunity to attend four of seven different<i> <\/i>seminars and workshops. Topics include: AT&amp;T\u2019s \u00a0<i>It Can Wait<\/i> \u00a0pledge for no texting and driving, Penn Liberty Bank\u2019s financial literacy, Longwood Gardens\u2019 \u00a0programs in horticulture, nutrition education, graphic art, athletic training and choosing the option to traveling abroad in college.\u00a0 The travel abroad presentation will be given by Chester County Futures alumnae, Maritza Zavala.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are grateful to Penn Liberty Bank and Elite Charitable Companies for their support of this year\u2019s Expo.\u00a0 Over fifty college and career exhibitors have signed up, providing our students with a wonderful and enriching day,\u201d explained Kimberly Hall, Executive Director, Chester County Futures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXTON \u2014 Chester County Futures will host its Annual College and Career Expo at Lincoln University on Thursday, Aug. 8. Over 220 local students from the program will spend the day meeting college admissions representatives, career presenters and attending workshops.\u00a0 The day will begin with special remarks from Brian C. Zwaan, President of Penn Liberty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,450],"tags":[262,3005,1212],"class_list":["post-8174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-events-2","tag-chester-county-futures","tag-college-and-career-expo","tag-lincoln-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}