{"id":9432,"date":"2025-10-18T05:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T05:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/9432\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T05:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T05:22:09","slug":"school-district-transforms-bus-into-mobile-science-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/9432\/","title":{"rendered":"School district transforms bus into mobile science lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 17, 2025 &#8211; Pinellas County Schools has turned a decommissioned bus into a state-of-the-art mobile laboratory designed to bring hands-on, immersive STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) education directly to students. The Innovation Lab will travel to every middle school in the district this year and provide a &#8220;field trip&#8221; experience for all seventh-graders. Five winning students from across the district created the mobile lab&#8217;s artwork, and 11 PCS departments contributed to transforming the former school bus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"October 17, 2025 &#8211; Pinellas County Schools has turned a decommissioned bus into a state-of-the-art mobile laboratory designed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-9432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}