{"id":20826,"date":"2015-05-04T14:58:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T19:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/?p=20826"},"modified":"2015-05-04T15:01:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T20:01:09","slug":"2015-commencement-ben-goltz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2015\/05\/04\/2015-commencement-ben-goltz\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Commencement: Ben Goltz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">The&nbsp;link between on-campus leadership and the opportunities that involvement can create&nbsp;is especially immediate for 2015 graduate <b>Ben Goltz<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Goltz, who briefly attended BSU in 2008 but dropped out, will take his computer science degree directly into a web-developer position with Digi-Key Electronics in Thief River Falls. He eventually hopes to benefit from the company&rsquo;s financial support for post-graduate study.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">His experiences at BSU made him a much more confident job candidate. Those include serving as vice president of the student Computer Science Club, working as a teaching associate in a computer science lab, and being invited to present his own research in artificial neural networks last August at a scholarly conference at the University of California, Berkeley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He largely credits Dr. Marty Wolf, a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, who &ndash; among other things &ndash; seized on his idea to use a small, affordable computer called a Raspberry Pi to teach assembly-language programming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Goltz said Wolf has mentored him on how to share his growing expertise with peers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">&ldquo;He&rsquo;s helped me identify the &lsquo;when&rsquo; and the &lsquo;how,&rsquo;&rdquo; Goltz said. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s really forced me to think about making sure that when I do speak up, I can do it in a way that&rsquo;s really understood.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;link between on-campus leadership and the opportunities that involvement can create&nbsp;is especially immediate for 2015 graduate Ben Goltz. Goltz, who briefly attended BSU in 2008 but dropped out, will take his computer science degree directly into a web-developer position with Digi-Key Electronics in Thief River Falls. He eventually hopes to benefit from the company&rsquo;s financial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20827,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[959],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-circle-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20829,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20826\/revisions\/20829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}