{"id":13322,"date":"2011-11-04T10:37:47","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T15:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=13322"},"modified":"2011-11-04T10:37:47","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T15:37:47","slug":"staff-faculty-bring-kids-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/11\/staff-faculty-bring-kids-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff, faculty bring kids to work"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13321\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13321\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13321 \" title=\"Participating in Take Our Kids to Work day at Brock University are, from left, Elizabeth Horsley, John Arseneau and Ross Horsley.\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/takeourkidstowork.jpg\" alt=\"John Arseneau, centre, and Ross Horsley, right, learn chest compressions and administering oxygen as Elizabeth Horsley gives instructions.\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13321\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Arseneau, centre, and Ross Horsley, right, learn chest compressions and administering oxygen as Elizabeth Horsley demonstrates.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There were a few more teenagers than usual on campus this week when Brock faculty and staff participated in Take Our Kids to Work Day.<\/p>\n<p>Ninth graders joined their parents at work in departments such as Student Health Services and Facilities Management. About 30 youth participated in the Nov. 2 event.<\/p>\n<p>Among them was Ross Horsley, who joined his mom Elizabeth, who is co-ordinator of the Learning Resource Centre in the Department of Nursing. The Sir Winston student also brought his friend, John Arseneau, from St. Francis.<\/p>\n<p>The pair had an action-packed day that included learning to do chest compressions and sitting in on a second-year class discussing full cardiac arrests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to be a nurse,\u201d said Ross, 14, who has his sights set on being an economist. \u201cBut it turns out (his mom\u2019s job) is a lot more interesting than I thought it was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Robbie McDonnell, a 14-year-old Holy Cross student, joined his dad Gary, who is assistant supervisor of electronics in Brock\u2019s Technical Services. He was joined by friend Nick Campanella.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been great having them here, although students aren\u2019t uncommon here,\u201d Gary McDonnell said. \u201cSo far today, we\u2019ve done some fun demonstrations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The students started the day at Market Hall, where they participated in activities and learned more about the University.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13323\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13323\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13323 \" title=\"Nick Campanella, Robbie McDonnell and Gary McDonnell\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/takeourkidstowork2011-2.jpg\" alt=\"Nick Campanella, Robbie McDonnell and Gary McDonnell participate in Take Our Kids to Work Day.\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13323\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Nick Campanella, Robbie McDonnell and Gary McDonnell participate in Take Our Kids to Work Day.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were a few more teenagers than usual on campus during Take Our Kids to Work Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[28,53,34,269],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13322"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13326,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13322\/revisions\/13326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}