{"id":7690,"date":"2016-05-20T19:08:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T19:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idsunmedia.com\/?p=7690"},"modified":"2016-05-20T19:08:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T19:08:44","slug":"nelson-cantrell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/20\/nelson-cantrell\/","title":{"rendered":"NELSON CANTRELL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Enjoys the Idaho outdoors<\/i><\/span><\/h2>\n

BY JONATHAN KANE<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Wood
Wood River High School senior Nelson Cantrell enjoys the outdoors. Courtesy photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nelson Cantrell, a senior at Wood River High School, loves the outdoor activities that growing up in Idaho affords.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just really like to get outside and enjoy life,\u201d he said. \u201cThat includes camping, backpacking, playing sports like basketball and Wiffle ball. One of my favorite things is when I go to my cousin\u2019s house in Spirit Lake outside Spokane and we get to go boating and swimming and all that stuff.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy parents introduced me to being in the outdoors. They took me along since I was a baby. My dad ran the athletic club and there would be Friday night hikes and he would take me along in his backpack until I was able to go along with him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been hiking and backpacking and camping since I can remember,\u201d Cantrell said.<\/p>\n

Cantrell said that when he was 7, his parents bought a motorhome and the family took a year-long trip back and forth across the continent.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst, we went down the West Coast to Cabo San Lucas in Mexico, and from there ferried with the motorhome to central Mexico. From there, we came up through Texas and crossed over to Alabama and Florida.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen we went through Virginia and saw New York City, then Vermont, New Hampshire and through Canada back to Spokane.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe highlight was the three months we spent in Mexico, and this was long before the drug cartels really blew up,\u201d Cantrell said. \u201cIt was such a cool culture and we would go to the beach every day and be the only ones there. We had just never been exposed to a different culture before and what came with it, like different food, beliefs and language. It was an amazing experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cantrell also enjoys sports, excelling in track and field, baseball and basketball. He is also a serious student, carrying a current 3.7 grade point average, and is a member of National Honor Society. Advanced Placement classes he\u2019s taken include U.S. History, Micro and Macro Economics, Government and Statistics.<\/p>\n

For his senior project, Cantrell built a solar panel out of aluminum cans.<\/p>\n

\u201cBasically, I made it out of 160 cans,\u201d he said. \u201cAt the middle school, I used a drill press and cut out the tops and bottoms and then glued them together with silicone to create channels.<\/p>\n

\u201cI then lined them up in a wood frame and then painted them with an absorbent paint. I then put a Plexiglas sheet on top of it and hung it on the outside of the house. When the sun hits it, the air is heated and rises into the house, where it displaces the cold air.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt works great,\u201d Cantrell said. \u201cI was looking to build something and my dad found the idea on the Internet. The great thing is that it doesn\u2019t use any electricity. It took a week of work and I\u2019m also pleased that I made it all out of recycled materials.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Enjoys the Idaho outdoors BY JONATHAN KANE Nelson Cantrell, a senior at Wood River High School, loves the outdoor activities that growing up in Idaho affords. \u201cI just really like to get outside and enjoy life,\u201d he said. \u201cThat includes camping, backpacking, playing sports like basketball and Wiffle ball. One of my favorite things is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,38,41],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-schools","8":"category-sponsored","9":"category-student-spotlight"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}