{"id":191828,"date":"2026-05-14T02:38:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T02:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/191828\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T02:38:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T02:38:06","slug":"allentown-students-showcase-creativity-at-district-project-exposition-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/191828\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown students showcase creativity at district project exposition | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Allentown students of all ages are showing off their creativity.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Wednesday, the district hosted its multi-disciplinary project exposition at the PPL Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More than 150 projects created by K-12 students were on display.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Those projects demonstrating the different skills students learned in the classroom.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There were interactive projects, performances, and juried exhibitions, focusing on the arts, technology, youth voice, and science.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ultimately it&#8217;s about becoming the creators of knowledge, not just regurgitators of knowledge, and so the opportunity for our students to demonstrate that they can produce something with what they&#8217;ve learned and go out into the world and teach others about what they&#8217;ve learned,&#8221; said Geoffrey Schmidt, principal of Dieruff High School.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The event included a community resource and vendor fair.<\/p>\n<p>Awards were also handed out to students who graduated from the district&#8217;s early college program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Allentown students of all ages are showing off their creativity. Earlier on Wednesday, the district&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232,233],"class_list":["post-191828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area","tag-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}