{"id":58923,"date":"2020-06-19T06:44:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T06:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=58923"},"modified":"2020-06-19T06:44:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T06:44:38","slug":"this-school-librarian-delivers-books-using-drones-as-libraries-remain-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2020\/06\/19\/this-school-librarian-delivers-books-using-drones-as-libraries-remain-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"This school librarian delivers books using drones as libraries remain closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly Passek is a\u00a0middle-school librarian in Virginia, and she was one of the first customers of a drone delivery service launched last year by Wing. When libraries were shut to the public amid the coronavirus outbreak, Kelly came up with a unique idea to ensure kids could still rent books.<\/p>\n<p>After seeing how quickly her household items were delivered, she petitioned Wing to take on library books, too.<\/p>\n<p>She asked the school&#8217;s superintendent, Mark Miear, who was &#8220;immediately on board.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Montgomery County Public Schools will be the first public school system in the world to use Wing to deliver library books to our students,&#8221; Passek said. &#8220;We are thrilled for this opportunity to have a really unique way to deliver resources to our students and do it practically on demand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/3836\/A-School-Librarian-Is-Using-Drones-To-Deliver-Books-To-Kids-All-Summer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/3836\/A-School-Librarian-Is-Using-Drones-To-Deliver-Books-To-Kids-All-Summer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly Passek is a\u00a0middle-school librarian in Virginia, and she was one of the first customers of a drone delivery service launched last year by Wing. When libraries were shut to the public amid the coronavirus outbreak, Kelly came up with a unique idea to ensure kids could still rent books. After seeing how quickly her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}