{"id":424,"date":"2009-04-23T09:48:49","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T14:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/?p=424"},"modified":"2020-08-17T17:58:34","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T17:58:34","slug":"conclusion-of-first-robotics-competition-noted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2009\/04\/23\/conclusion-of-first-robotics-competition-noted\/","title":{"rendered":"Conclusion Of FIRST Robotics Competition Noted."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From ASEE <a href=\"http:\/\/links.mkt753.com\/servlet\/MailView?ms=NDAzNTgyMAS2&#038;r=MzU4NTAyMDEwMQS2&#038;j=MTE1ODAwMjI0S0&#038;mt=1&#038;rt=0\">First Bell<\/a> April 23, 2009<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/blog\/60-second-science\/post.cfm?id=robot-lunacy-competition-wraps-up-i-2009-04-22\">Scientific American<\/a> (4\/22, Greenemeier) 60-Second Science Blog reported, &#8220;High-schooler&#8217;s from California, Illinois and Michigan took the brass ring last weekend in the FIRST (For Inspiration, Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition Championship in Atlanta pitting hundreds of student-made robots against one another in a game fittingly called known as &#8216;Lunacy&#8217; (a nod to the 40th anniversary of NASA&#8217;s moon landing).&#8221; The winning alliance of teams &#8220;outscored their opponents in a contest requiring their robots to pick up and place as many spongy, nine-inch (23-centimeter) game balls as possible in trailers hitched to their opponents&#8217; robots.&#8221; The article describes the competition, as well as the history of FIRST, and provides links to previous coverage of the competition. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From ASEE First Bell April 23, 2009 The Scientific American (4\/22, Greenemeier) 60-Second Science Blog reported, &#8220;High-schooler&#8217;s from California, Illinois and Michigan took the brass ring last weekend in the FIRST (For Inspiration, Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2009\/04\/23\/conclusion-of-first-robotics-competition-noted\/\">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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robot-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","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=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5589,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/5589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}