{"id":8628,"date":"2016-01-24T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T17:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/coppa-co-owner-places-2nd-in-penn-states-ice-cream-course\/"},"modified":"2016-01-24T09:00:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T17:00:57","slug":"coppa-co-owner-places-2nd-in-penn-states-ice-cream-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/coppa-co-owner-places-2nd-in-penn-states-ice-cream-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Coppa co-owner places 2nd in Penn State&#8217;s ice cream course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coppa co-owner Marc Wheeler returned Sunday from Penn State University where he attended the 124th annual Ice Cream Short Course. At the end of the weeklong course, it was announced that Wheeler placed 2nd in the class of more than 140 students based on graded coursework and a final exam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI learned a great deal at the ice cream short course,\u201d Wheeler said. \u201cIt was an intense week dedicated to the science, art and manufacturing of ice cream &#8211; from cow to cone. I can\u2019t wait to use what I learned to make Coppa\u2019s ice cream even better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wheeler\u2019s tuition and travel were funded in part by funds and air miles awarded to Coppa by winning Haa Aani\u2019s Path to Prosperity competition and the Anchorage Economic Development Corporation\u2019s AEDC Pitch-on-a-Train event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProbably the most fun parts of the course were when we tasted and evaluated a number of different ice creams, sometimes more than twenty,\u201d Wheeler said. \u201cBut don\u2019t be too jealous; we had to spit them out after each taste to keep our palates sharp.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coppa co-owner Marc Wheeler returned Sunday from Penn State University where he attended the 124th annual Ice Cream Short Course. At the end of the weeklong course, it was announced that Wheeler placed 2nd in the class of more than 140 students based on graded coursework and a final exam. \u201cI learned a great deal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-8628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8628"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}