{"id":13465,"date":"2012-10-24T19:06:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T19:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=13465"},"modified":"2025-01-29T17:04:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T22:04:53","slug":"engineering-spirit-in-abundance-at-homecoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2012\/10\/engineering-spirit-in-abundance-at-homecoming\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering Spirit in Abundance at Homecoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/kindle1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13493 img-responsive lazyload\" title=\"kindle1\" data-src=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/kindle1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"278\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/278;\" \/><\/a>At the Huskies football homecoming game at Rentschler Field on October 13<sup>th<\/sup> against Temple, the UConn Alumni Association sponsored a <em>Spirit Village<\/em> showcasing school and college-centric tents for alumni, students and families, and prospective students.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The engineering tent, which featured banners, hay bales and pumpkins, and other autumn-themed attractions, attracted a large and enthusiastic crowd before the football game. View photos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uconnengineering\/sets\/72157631784245546\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Activities at the UConn Engineering tent included a ring toss game in which contestants vied to accurately land their rings on the pumpkin stems, and a drawing for a free Kindle e-reader. The winner of the free Kindle was Joanna Hull, who awarded the e-reader to her sister Jennifer Hull (\u201916), a freshman in Mechanical Engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Huskies football homecoming game at Rentschler Field on October 13th against Temple, the UConn Alumni Association sponsored a Spirit Village showcasing school and college-centric tents for alumni, students and families, and prospective students. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":224697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[42],"class_list":["post-13465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-15 23:17:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224698,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13465\/revisions\/224698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/224697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13465"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=13465"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}