{"id":57362,"date":"2020-11-30T15:32:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T21:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=57362"},"modified":"2020-11-30T15:32:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T21:32:20","slug":"students-to-keep-christmas-toy-building-tradition-alive-at-fort-hays-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=57362","title":{"rendered":"Students to keep Christmas toy building tradition alive at Fort Hays State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The annual Dr. Fred P. Ruda Teaming Up for Tots Day at Fort Hays State University, a Christmas toy-building project, was canceled because of COVID-19 concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, students and faculty in the\nDepartment of Applied Technology still plan to assemble 200 wooden toys for\nchildren who otherwise might not receive a Christmas gift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The TUFT project was started in 1990 by\nRuda, former chair of the department. FHSU students designed the toys.\nVolunteers of all ages from the university and the Hays community would\nconverge on the woodshop in Davis Hall to sand, glue, nail, assemble and apply\noil finish to the toys. The project moved to the new Center for Applied Technology\nin 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kim Stewart, current department chair,\nsaid that because of the pandemic, the faculty decided to have students in\nFHSU\u2019s chapter of the Technology and Engineering Education Collegiate\nAssociation (TEECA) construct the toys the first week of December. The toys\nwill be delivered to the local TUFT organization, which then distributes them\nin time for Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As in years past, the Materials,\nProcesses and Production class taught by Dr. Duane Renfrow, associate professor\nof applied technology, will design and cut the pieces for a wooden pick-up\ntruck and create instructions to guide the assembly process. The TEECA students\nthen will assemble the toy trucks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe really believe it\u2019s still important\nto continue this project,\u201d Stewart said. \u201cAlthough we are saddened we can\u2019t\nhave university and community members participate this year for safety reasons,\nit\u2019s a tradition that has gone on for more than 30 years, one that we still\nwant to continue.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS The annual Dr. Fred P. Ruda Teaming Up for Tots Day at Fort Hays State University, a Christmas toy-building project, was canceled&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11722],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Teaming20Tots20Image20NEWS.png?fit=1000%2C667","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57364,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57362\/revisions\/57364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}