{"id":13140,"date":"2019-10-24T14:11:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T18:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute?p=13140"},"modified":"2019-10-24T14:11:26","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T18:11:26","slug":"the-ct-convergence-institute-attends-and-supports-ymca-celebrates-champions-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/2019\/10\/24\/the-ct-convergence-institute-attends-and-supports-ymca-celebrates-champions-gala\/","title":{"rendered":"The CT Convergence Institute Attends and Supports YMCA Celebrates Champions Gala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institutewp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2019\/10\/YMCA-Lobo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13174 size-full\" src=\"health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institutewp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2019\/10\/YMCA-Lobo.jpg\" alt=\"YMCA Lobo\" width=\"559\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2019\/10\/YMCA-Lobo.jpg 559w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2019\/10\/YMCA-Lobo-300x265.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s YMCA Celebrates Champions event featured honored guests and speakers Rebecca Lobo, NCAA National Champion, Olympic gold medalist, WNBA all-star and hall of famer; Steve Rushin, author of five non-fiction books and a novel, columnist and feature writer for Sports Illustrated; and Kevin Washington, YMCA of the USA President and CEO.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past decade, the Wilson-Gray YMCA Youth &amp; Family Center has evolved into a beacon for a brighter future for youth and families. Annually, it engages nearly 4,000 active members, over 500 children in summer camp and after-school programs, and close to 300 youth in leadership development programs. Funds raised from the Champions event will support the Wilson-Gray YMCA community today, for the next 10 years, and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>The Connecticut Convergence Institute values the Y as a partner in providing innovative and life-changing programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s YMCA Celebrates Champions event featured honored guests and speakers Rebecca Lobo, NCAA National Champion, Olympic gold medalist, WNBA all-star and hall of famer; Steve Rushin, author of five non-fiction books and a novel, columnist and feature writer for Sports Illustrated; and Kevin Washington, YMCA of the USA President and CEO. Over the past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":909,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 08:01:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/909"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13140"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13175,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13140\/revisions\/13175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}