{"id":1108,"date":"2016-11-17T13:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T19:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2016-11-18T17:30:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T23:30:31","slug":"student-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/2016\/11\/17\/student-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/files\/2016\/11\/josh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1134 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/files\/2016\/11\/josh-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"josh\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joshua Doering of Hubbard, Iowa, is a senior currently majoring in business administration with an emphasis in finance and marketing and minoring in agriculture business.<\/p>\n<p>Doering chose Morningside College mainly because of its size.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI loved the connections to professors and students based off the small-school feel, the\u00a0good reputation as a business school\u00a0and also the chance to continue my sports career through\u00a0basketball and track.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Doering has been involved in Morningside College Entrepreneurship Group since his sophomore year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoining Entrepreneurship Group has given me the chance to build and refine many important skills and make connections that have positively impacted my time at Morningside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He views E-Group as apart of the foundation for launching his own business, Seed Slide.<\/p>\n<p>Seed Slide is a device that allows farmers to safely open and and unload large seed boxes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince Seed Slide\u2019s inception, it has been a roller coaster of experiences that have shaped into one fun ride.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doering started designing the product for use on his family\u2019s farm due to dangers faced by his father and grandfather.<\/p>\n<p>Since then he has had many accomplishments, including being nominated to be the Silicon Prairie Student Entrepreneur of the Year and winning the CEO National Pitch Competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile helping to build my r\u00e9sum\u00e9, my work with Seed Slide has grown into a sustainable business, truly making an impact in the agriculture industry by adding safety and convenience into farming operations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Doering of Hubbard, Iowa, is a senior currently majoring in business administration with an emphasis in finance and marketing and minoring in agriculture business. Doering chose Morningside College mainly because of its size. \u201cI loved the connections to professors and students based off the small-school feel, the\u00a0good reputation as a business school\u00a0and also the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":968,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52909],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/968"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1156,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions\/1156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}