{"id":973,"date":"2016-02-11T17:26:18","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T17:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/?p=973"},"modified":"2016-02-14T17:26:53","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T17:26:53","slug":"vex-competition-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/calderhead\/2016\/02\/11\/vex-competition-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Vex Competition 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pupils from Calderhead HS team took part in the Vex Competition in Coatbridge. They got through to the semi-finals. Well done, boys! In the VEX Competitions, presented by the Robotics Education &amp; Competition Foundation, teams of students are tasked with designing and building a robot to play against other teams in a game-based engineering challenge. 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