{"id":1911,"date":"2011-05-01T11:54:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T16:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/?p=1911"},"modified":"2020-08-17T17:56:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T17:56:17","slug":"uofm-programming-challenge-robotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2011\/05\/01\/uofm-programming-challenge-robotics\/","title":{"rendered":"UofM Programming Challenge \/ Robotics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, UofM Computer Science department held its &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.memphis.edu\/programming_challenge\/\">Programming Challenge<\/a>&#8221; Competition. This year they changed the format a bit and added ROBOTICS to the competition. They used Lego RCX robotics and programmed them with <a href=\"http:\/\/lejos.sourceforge.net\/\">LeJOS<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>They had around 80 students compete in both the Robot and Website challenges.<\/p>\n<p>I was helping out by judging the Robotics Event and had a ball. <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1912\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dan-kohn.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_7243.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1912\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.dan-kohn.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_7243-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_7243\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1912\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_7243-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_7243-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_7243-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_7243-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_7243-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_7243-1200x900.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_7243-1980x1485.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1912\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demo of sample code<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dan-kohn.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_7254.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.dan-kohn.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_7254-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Students Programming Robot\" title=\"IMG_7254\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1913\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_7254-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_7254-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_7254-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_7254-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_7254-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_7254-1200x900.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_7254-1980x1485.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For pictures and video from the event: <a href=\"http:\/\/tech-uofm.info\/spring_2011\/prog\/\">Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is an annual event run for High Schools by the University of Memphis Computer Science Department. For more information see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.memphis.edu\/programming_challenge\/\">Programming Challenge Website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, UofM Computer Science department held its &#8220;Programming Challenge&#8221; Competition. This year they changed the format a bit and added ROBOTICS to the competition. They used Lego RCX robotics and programmed them with LeJOS. They had around 80 students compete &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2011\/05\/01\/uofm-programming-challenge-robotics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-memphis_robotics","category-teaching_tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5386,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions\/5386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}