{"id":4343,"date":"2016-02-16T08:56:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T08:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/?p=4343"},"modified":"2016-02-21T21:55:43","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T21:55:43","slug":"robotics-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/2016\/02\/16\/robotics-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Robotics Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to team Monty from Braidhurst High School and team Phillip for winning the Vex Robotics Regional competition. \u00a0\u00a0The Vex challenge is the \u00a0World&#8217;s Largest and Fastest-Growing Robotics Competition for \u00a0High Schools\u00a0 and Collages. More than 10,000 teams from 32 countries playing in over 750 tournaments compete to become the best globally. Team Monty are now refining their skills\u00a0 in Programming to go to the National competition.<\/p>\n<p>In the VEX Competitions, presented by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roboticseducation.org\/\">Robotics Education &amp; Competition Foundation<\/a>, teams of students are tasked with designing and building a robot to play against other teams from around the world in a game-based engineering challenge. Classroom STEM concepts are put to the test on the playing field as students learn lifelong skills in teamwork, leadership, communications, and more. Tournaments are held year-round at the regional, state, and national levels; local champions go on to compete against the best in the world at VEX Worlds each April.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to team Monty from Braidhurst High School and team Phillip for winning the Vex Robotics Regional competition. \u00a0\u00a0The Vex challenge is the \u00a0World&#8217;s Largest and Fastest-Growing Robotics Competition for \u00a0High Schools\u00a0 and Collages. More than 10,000 teams from 32 countries playing in over 750 tournaments compete to become the best globally. Team Monty are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/2016\/02\/16\/robotics-competition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Robotics Competition<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13966,"featured_media":4342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14908],"tags":[662],"class_list":["post-4343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whole-school-news","tag-home"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/Braidhurst\/uploads\/sites\/12229\/2016\/02\/Robotics-Group-Feb-16.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13966"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4456,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343\/revisions\/4456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}