{"id":29,"date":"2017-07-21T14:11:57","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T18:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-lhorne\/?p=29"},"modified":"2017-07-21T14:14:02","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T18:14:02","slug":"ply-gem-take-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-lhorne\/2017\/07\/21\/ply-gem-take-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ply Gem &#8211; Take 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-lhorne\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/282\/2017\/07\/ply-gem-hail-impact-test-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-lhorne\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/282\/2017\/07\/ply-gem-hail-impact-test-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-lhorne\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/282\/2017\/07\/ply-gem-hail-impact-test-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-lhorne\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/282\/2017\/07\/ply-gem-hail-impact-test-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-lhorne\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/282\/2017\/07\/ply-gem-hail-impact-test-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Can I say mind blown? \u00a0The past few weeks have been a tremendous learning experience. \u00a0 Impact resistance testing for hail, the roofing industry, design thinking and materials science are just a few of the topics that I have been immersed in while interning at Ply Gem. \u00a0The challenge has been how to take what I have learned and mold it into a product or experience that can benefit my students and do it \u00a0 within the constraints of the curriculum that must be covered in my courses. \u00a0My mentor has talked to me about how important the design thinking process is in the develpment of ideas in industry. \u00a0As a result of that discussion, I have taken a deep dive into learning all that I can about the process. \u00a0This has led me to the idea of using design thinking as the backbone for my Kenan Fellows product. \u00a0I am very excited about this and cannot wait to see what the end result will be. \u00a0One more amazing week to go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can I say mind blown? \u00a0The past few weeks have been a tremendous learning experience. \u00a0 Impact resistance testing for hail, the roofing industry, design thinking and materials science are just a few of the topics that I have been&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":519,"featured_media":31,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-lhorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-lhorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-lhorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-lhorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-lhorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-lhorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-lhorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-lhorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-lhorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-lhorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-lhorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}