{"id":68,"date":"2007-09-18T06:59:05","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T13:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/LA\/2007\/09\/18\/uccs-qualifier-tournament\/"},"modified":"2007-09-18T15:58:03","modified_gmt":"2007-09-18T22:58:03","slug":"uccs-qualifier-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/LA\/2007\/09\/18\/uccs-qualifier-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"UCCS qualifier tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstlegoleague.org\/default.aspx?pid=29620\">First Lego League Q &amp; A<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Our goal is to get kids to have fun doing something technical so they may grow in their comfort with it and hunger for it.\u00a0 It is fun for the kids to look for ways around constraints, and it&#8217;s a must for engineers to operate this way.\u00a0 And while they&#8217;re avoiding the thought it takes to get the robot back to Base, the same energy and risk has gone into whatever method they used to do so.\u00a0 They&#8217;re still having fun.\u00a0 They&#8217;re still doing something technical.\u00a0 Who cares what they&#8217;re actually doing?\u00a0 It&#8217;s a bunch of plastic.\u00a0 If what they&#8217;re doing is allowable under the rules, then it&#8217;s perfectly okay.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coloradofirst.org\/socolorado\/index.htm\">http:\/\/www.coloradofirst.org\/socolorado\/index.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"449\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coloradofirst.org\/socolorado\/_borders\/SC-FLL%20Webpage%20Header.JPG\" height=\"119\" style=\"width: 449px; height: 119px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: First Lego League Q &amp; A &#8220;Our goal is to get kids to have fun doing something technical so they may grow in their comfort with it and hunger for it.\u00a0 It is fun for the kids to look for ways around constraints, and it&#8217;s a must for engineers to operate this way.\u00a0 And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/LA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/LA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/LA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/LA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/LA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/LA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/LA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/LA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/LA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}