{"id":272784,"date":"2026-08-26T20:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T20:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/272784\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T20:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T20:26:07","slug":"university-of-scrantons-f-i-r-s-t-program-hosts-family-fun-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/272784\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Scranton&#8217;s F.I.R.S.T. Program hosts Family Fun Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Organizers say the goal of the event is to help first-year students adjust to college life.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 It was perfect weather for the University of Scranton&#8217;s Family Fun Day on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The school&#8217;s Center for Service and Social Justice hosted the event at Novembrino Park.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers say the goal is to help first-year students acclimate to college life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This program, F.I.R.S.T., which stands for &#8216;First Years Involved Reflective Service Together&#8217;, \u00a0really is a great experience for incoming first-years and the upperclassmen team, because it gives them a chance to get involved in the Scranton community where we go to school, and model the pillars of our Jesuit education,&#8221; said Kate Vyzaniaris, senior.<\/p>\n<p>Students could participate in games, a school supply giveaway, and more at the event in Scranton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Organizers say the goal of the event is to help first-year students adjust to college life. SCRANTON, Pa.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-272784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272784","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=272784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}