{"id":1322,"date":"2019-11-20T15:36:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T21:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/?p=1322"},"modified":"2019-11-20T15:36:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T21:36:55","slug":"student-employee-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/2019\/11\/20\/student-employee-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Employee Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1345 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2019\/11\/IMG_8263-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2019\/11\/IMG_8263-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2019\/11\/IMG_8263-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2019\/11\/IMG_8263-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2019\/11\/IMG_8263-490x327.jpg 490w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2019\/11\/IMG_8263-1080x720.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Samuel \u201cSam\u201d Lopez is a junior engineering major from Abilene, Texas who works in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/makerlab.online\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maker Lab<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> helping students with their creative projects and all things do it yourself (DIY) and mechanical.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sam recalls, \u201cFrom an early age I could be found assembling and reassembling television remotes and radios learning how they worked.\u00a0 The curiosity inspired me, and now I can repair almost anything.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sam began his work in the Maker Lab with an internship during highschool and has seen first hand the result of a remodeled space.\u00a0 He shares, \u201c My favorite space in the Maker Lab is the woodshop area, where I can woodwork and make signs, furniture, puzzles, and games.\u00a0 Being a \u201cMaker\u201d allows me opportunities to work on DIY art projects, problem solve, and experience something new to do every day.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel \u201cSam\u201d Lopez is a junior engineering major from Abilene, Texas who works in the Maker Lab helping students with their creative projects and all things do it yourself (DIY) and mechanical. Sam recalls, \u201cFrom an early age I could be found assembling and reassembling television remotes and radios learning how they worked.\u00a0 The curiosity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1346,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions\/1346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}