{"id":136591,"date":"2021-03-03T14:10:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T00:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=136591"},"modified":"2021-03-08T10:19:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T20:19:16","slug":"vulcans-take-dr-seuss-virtual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/03\/03\/vulcans-take-dr-seuss-virtual\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulcans take Dr. Seuss virtual"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_85725\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tZ0tBJpmHVc?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"#1\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>On Read Across America Day for the past six years, <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/index.aspx\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at Hilo student-athletes<\/a> have read Dr. Seuss books to elementary school students around East <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, that was physically impossible this year, but the Vulcans did their best to take Dr. Seuss virtual.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo student-athletes made videos for six different schools\u2014Wai&#257;keawaena Elementary, <span aria-label=\"KaUmana\">Ka&#699;&#363;mana<\/span> Elementary, <span aria-label=\"Kalanianaole\">Kalaniana&#699;ole<\/span> Elementary, Hilo Union Elementary, Keaukaha Elementary, <span aria-label=\"Haaheo\">Ha&#699;aheo<\/span> Elementary and Wai&#257;kea Elementary. The videos were sent to the principals of each school, who then distributed them to teachers and classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>Vulcan student-athletes have read to more than 10,000 keiki in-person, and now they can add virtual readings to that total.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Kinder<\/strong>, Vulcan men\u2019s assistant basketball coach, filmed and produced the student-athlete videos.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Thank you to our student-athletes and coaches for their continued support of our local keiki and schools,&rdquo; said 糖心Vlog官方 Hilo Athletic Director <strong>Patrick Guillen<\/strong>. &ldquo;Even though we had to adjust our approach this year, I am happy to say that this is always one of my favorite days of the year. This has grown from reading to 1,800 children our first year in 2016 to almost 2,700 last year. It\u2019s a big part of who we are in reaching out and connecting with our local youth and the community. Despite the pandemic, it just wasn\u2019t an option to not continue this tradition for our keiki.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2021\/3\/2\/general-vulcans-take-dr-seuss-virtual.aspx\">For more go the the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo Athletics website.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_136598\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-136598\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hilo-athletics-dr-seuss-williams.jpg\" alt=\"person wearing cat in the hat costume\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-136598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hilo-athletics-dr-seuss-williams.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hilo-athletics-dr-seuss-williams-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hilo-athletics-dr-seuss-williams-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-136598\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vulcan basketball player Darren Williams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Read Across America Day, the Vulcans did their best to take Dr. Seuss virtual to elementary schools around East <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,714,14,151,907],"class_list":["post-136591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-athlete","tag-uh-hilo","tag-hilo-athletics","tag-uh-hilo-stories","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136591"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136600,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136591\/revisions\/136600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}