{"id":59561,"date":"2014-05-20T12:26:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T16:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=59561"},"modified":"2014-05-22T17:22:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T21:22:50","slug":"lead-scholars-adopts-pond-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/lead-scholars-adopts-pond-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LEAD Scholars Adopts a Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_59554\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\" class=\"figure\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/lead-scholars-adopts-pond\/ut-leadpond-copy\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-59554\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"figure-img size-medium img-fluid w-100 wp-image-59554\" alt=\"L-R: Francin Espiritu, Adil Ali and Valeria Simonetti\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2014\/05\/UT-LEADpond-Copy-300x225.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2014\/05\/UT-LEADpond-Copy-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2014\/05\/UT-LEADpond-Copy-533x400.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2014\/05\/UT-LEADpond-Copy-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2014\/05\/UT-LEADpond-Copy.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"figure-img size-medium img-fluid w-100 wp-image-59554 lazyload\" alt=\"L-R: Francin Espiritu, Adil Ali and Valeria Simonetti\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20300%20225%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20300%20225%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2014\/05\/UT-LEADpond-Copy-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2014\/05\/UT-LEADpond-Copy-533x400.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2014\/05\/UT-LEADpond-Copy-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2014\/05\/UT-LEADpond-Copy.jpg 624w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2014\/05\/UT-LEADpond-Copy-300x225.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">L-R: Francin Espiritu, Adil Ali and Valeria Simonetti<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Everyone has seen a sign \u201cAdopt a Highway\u201d where volunteers clean up the trash along the road. Along the same idea, LEAD Scholars have volunteered to clean up but for something different, \u201cAdopt A Pond.\u201dThis initiative was created during the fall semester 2013. Its original members (Rungrote Athajarusith, Wessley Dennis, Kenzhane Pantin, and Christian Vazquez) had a great desire to not only help the environment but encourage involvement and heighten awareness. Currently, the group has created a sign&nbsp;which does just that. The pond is located in the UCF Arboretum.<\/p>\n<p>Also, as the project grows, more and more LEAD Scholars are coming out to clean the pond every two weeks to recycle, dispose of trash, and spread the message of environmental activism. The LEAD Scholars clean up helps improve the water quality as well as the wildlife habitat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everyone has seen a sign \u201cAdopt a Highway\u201d where volunteers clean up the trash along the road. 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Its original members (Rungrote Athajarusith, Wessley Dennis, Kenzhane Pantin, and Christian Vazquez) had a great desire to&hellip;","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[6,27],"tags":[305,1584,2782,4185],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-59561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-student-life","tag-arboretum","tag-environment","tag-lead-scholars","tag-sdes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>LEAD Scholars Adopts a Pond | University of Central Florida News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Everyone has seen a sign \u201cAdopt a Highway\u201d where volunteers clean up the trash along the road. 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