{"id":1032,"date":"2017-06-01T10:52:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T15:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2017-06-01T10:55:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T15:55:02","slug":"connelly-cowan-honored-for-exceptional-academic-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/2017\/06\/01\/connelly-cowan-honored-for-exceptional-academic-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Connelly Cowan Honored for Exceptional Academic Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Connelly Cowan, a 7th grade student at Mount Pleasant Junior High School, earned State Recognition from the Duke University Talent Identification Program (Duke TIP) by earning a score on the ACT that is approximately equal to the 50th national percentile rank for college-bound seniors taking that test.<\/p>\n<p>She was recognized at the Texas State Recognition Ceremony at the University of Texas in Denton. Connelly is the daughter of Collin and Kelly Cowan.<\/p>\n<p>To qualify for the 2016\u20132017 school year, she had to meet at least one of the following criteria: English, Math or Science greater than or equal to 22, or Reading greater or equal to 23.<\/p>\n<p>Duke TIP\u2019s 7th Grade Talent Search identifies students across the United States who have scored at or above the 95th percentile on a grade-level standardized test. As part of the program, these academically talented students take above-level college-entrance exams to learn more about their abilities. Duke TIP then hosts annual recognition ceremonies to honor the seventh graders who scored the highest on these ACT or SAT exams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connelly Cowan, a 7th grade student at Mount Pleasant Junior High School, earned State Recognition from the Duke University Talent Identification Program (Duke TIP) by earning a score on the ACT that is approximately equal to the 50th national percentile rank for college-bound seniors taking that test. She was recognized at the Texas State Recognition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}