{"id":24635,"date":"2014-12-15T14:17:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T19:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=24635"},"modified":"2016-05-19T13:36:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T17:36:12","slug":"fiu-college-of-business-delivers-donated-books-to-broadmoor-elementary-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2014\/12\/fiu-college-of-business-delivers-donated-books-to-broadmoor-elementary-students\/","title":{"rendered":"FIU College of Business delivers donated books to Broadmoor Elementary students."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/book-drive-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24640\" src=\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/book-drive-01.jpg\" alt=\"book-drive-01\" width=\"550\" height=\"348\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Students at Broadmoor Elementary, located in Miami\u2019s West Little River neighborhood, received 615 books donated by students, faculty and staff of FIU\u2019s College of Business through the college\u2019s \u201cInspire a Child to Read\u201d holiday book drive. Now in its second year, the initiative aims to boost students\u2019 academic achievement.<\/p>\n<p>Gathered in the school library, a group of Broadmoor students were thrilled when allowed to choose from dozens of books that were laid on tables. A third-grader was excited upon finding one of the titles in the \u201cPercy Jackson\u201d series. \u201cI really wanted to read it,\u201d he exclaimed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/book-drive-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24641\" src=\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/book-drive-02.jpg\" alt=\"book-drive-02\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe books serve as an incentive for reading and learning that will continue outside of school,\u201d said Dr. Omar Riaz, an FIU graduate (Ph.D. \u201912) who took over as Broadmoor\u2019s principal in June. The school has 439 students from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade.<\/p>\n<p>COB team members who delivered the books spoke with the children about the importance of reading and highlighted the fun in sharing and trading books with friends.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" align=\"middle\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/slideShow\/index.gne?group_id=&amp;user_id=23794481@N04&amp;set_id=72157649360799607\/show\" width=\"100%\" ><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students at Broadmoor Elementary, located in Miami\u2019s West Little River neighborhood, received 615 books donated by students, faculty and staff of FIU\u2019s College of Business through the college\u2019s \u201cInspire a Child to Read\u201d holiday book drive. Now in its second year, the initiative aims to boost students\u2019 academic achievement. Gathered in the school library, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":24638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4202,3452],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24635"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26782,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24635\/revisions\/26782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}