{"id":35037,"date":"2019-02-04T11:25:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T17:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/?p=35037"},"modified":"2019-02-04T11:25:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T17:25:54","slug":"paul-bunyan-communications-charging-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2019\/02\/04\/paul-bunyan-communications-charging-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Bunyan Communications Charging Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/Charge2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-35038 alignright img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/Charge2-187x300.png\" alt=\"Charge Station\" width=\"239\" height=\"383\" data-bp=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/Charge2-e1549301073230.png\"><\/a>BSU students now have a convenient place to charge their smart phones, tablets and other mobile devices thanks to a portable charging station recently installed by Bemidji-based Paul Bunyan Communications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">The charging station in the upper Hobson Memorial Union is compatible with all major mobile devices and can power 12 devices at a time. It charges smart phone batteries up to 30 percent faster than plugging them into the wall, while using 25 percent less energy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">The sponsorship also unlocked funds from the Minnesota State leveraged equipment fund for the station&rsquo;s purchase, which will not only keep students&rsquo; devices fully charged, but offer additional learning opportunities as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">&ldquo;By using a Kill-A-Watt electricity monitor, we hope to teach students about the electrical draw of personal electronic devices,&rdquo; said Jordan Lutz, BSU sustainability project manager. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">In addition to their long-time support for Beaver athletics and other university programs, Paul Bunyan Communications has endowed seven scholarships for BSU students.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"s3\">BSU students now have a convenient place to charge their smart phones, tablets and other mobile devices thanks to a portable charging station recently installed by Bemidji-based Paul Bunyan Communications.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[958],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35037","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=35037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35040,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35037\/revisions\/35040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}