{"id":1793,"date":"2014-12-17T14:45:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T13:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/?p=1793"},"modified":"2014-12-17T14:46:08","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T13:46:08","slug":"1793","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/2014\/12\/1793\/","title":{"rendered":"A Festive Gingerbread House Competition at LSI Berkeley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students and staff came together at LSI Berkeley on Friday, December 12<sup>th<\/sup> to kick off our holiday celebrations with what has become an annual gingerbread house competition.\u00a0 As always, this competition was a reminder that there can be so much more to LSI students than English Language Learners.\u00a0 Our students are architects, marketers, engineers, and story tellers\u2014and today they got to show off some of those skills.<\/p>\n<p>Each class at LSI was tasked with the creation of a gingerbread house to be judged by our administrative staff based on creativity, overall execution, structural stability, and presentation.\u00a0 The results were incredible.\u00a0 Some classes went the traditional route and some brought a whole new perspective to gingerbread houses.\u00a0 There was a \u2018Mick Jagger\u2019 gingerbread house, featuring an oversized icing tongue as a welcome mat.\u00a0 One class decided they\u2019d incorporate a little bit of Halloween charm, and wound up creating a Ginger-House-of-Horrors, complete with front lawn graveyard.\u00a0 The winning gingerbread house was a retelling of the \u2018Three Little Pigs\u2019 story through a gingerbread tableau\u2014students created not one, but three houses, each representing a different one of the houses in the iconic fairy tale.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Holidays from all of us here in Berkeley!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1795\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1795\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/GingerBread.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1795\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/GingerBread.jpg\" alt=\"Ann Bassini Milanezi with her Gingerbread House (left) and the winners with the 3 Little Pigs (right)\" width=\"450\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/GingerBread.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/GingerBread-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1795\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ann Bassini with her Gingerbread House (left), the winners with the 3 Little Pigs (right)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students and staff came together at LSI Berkeley on Friday, December 12th to kick off our holiday celebrations with what&nbsp;[&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-1793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lsi-news","tag-lsi-berkeley","post-item clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1797,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions\/1797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}