{"id":1044,"date":"2020-10-19T00:37:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T05:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bryanisd.org\/BryanCollegiateHS\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2020-10-16T12:43:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T17:43:03","slug":"alumni-spotlight-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bryanisd.org\/BryanCollegiateHS\/2020\/10\/19\/alumni-spotlight-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Each week, we will be spotlighting a Bryan Collegiate alumni and what they are doing now!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Name:  <em>Kyle Boedeker<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When did you graduate from Bryan Collegiate?  <em>May 2016<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What college\/university did you attend?  <em>Texas A&amp;M University<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When did you graduate from your college\/university?  <em>May 2020<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What did you major in at your college\/university? <em> Bachelor in Science in Electrical Engineering <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What are you doing now? <em>Currently working at a company called NI (formerly National Instruments) as a Research and Design Test Engineer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What would you like to tell current Bryan Collegiate students?<br><em>In my experience people generally either fall into one of two groups: the people who never stop learning and striving to be better, or the people who try to get by with what they know already and stay where they&#8217;re at.  My advice to Collegiate students would\u00a0be to try and be a member of the former group. You&#8217;ve already taken a good step by attending Collegiate but don&#8217;t forget\u00a0why\u00a0you&#8217;re attending. Even if you falter, you&#8217;re surrounded by people who would love to help you get back on the path to becoming a better person.<\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bryanisd.org\/BryanCollegiateHS\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/10\/Snapchat-466799965-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1045\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bryanisd.org\/BryanCollegiateHS\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/10\/Snapchat-466799965-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/blogs.bryanisd.org\/BryanCollegiateHS\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/10\/Snapchat-466799965-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/blogs.bryanisd.org\/BryanCollegiateHS\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/10\/Snapchat-466799965.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) calc(100vw - 50px), (max-width: 767px) calc(100vw - 70px), (max-width: 991px) 429px, (max-width: 1199px) 637px, 354px\" \/><figcaption>Kyle working in his Research and Design Lab at NI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each week, we will be spotlighting a Bryan Collegiate alumni and what they are doing now! Name: Kyle Boedeker When did you graduate from Bryan Collegiate? May 2016 What college\/university &#8230;<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bryanisd.org\/BryanCollegiateHS\/2020\/10\/19\/alumni-spotlight-7\/\" class=\"read-more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\"Alumni Spotlight\"<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administration","penguin-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.bryanisd.org\/BryanCollegiateHS\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/08\/dfw-alumni-spotlight.jpg","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bryanisd.org\/BryanCollegiateHS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bryanisd.org\/BryanCollegiateHS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bryanisd.org\/BryanCollegiateHS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bryanisd.org\/BryanCollegiateHS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bryanisd.org\/BryanCollegiateHS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bryanisd.org\/BryanCollegiateHS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bryanisd.org\/BryanCollegiateHS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions\/1046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bryanisd.org\/BryanCollegiateHS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bryanisd.org\/BryanCollegiateHS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bryanisd.org\/BryanCollegiateHS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bryanisd.org\/BryanCollegiateHS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}