{"id":86,"date":"2008-10-26T16:10:58","date_gmt":"2008-10-26T21:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raymondwhiteside.com\/?p=86"},"modified":"2008-10-26T16:10:58","modified_gmt":"2008-10-26T21:10:58","slug":"lego-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/raymondwhitfield\/2008\/10\/26\/lego-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Lego League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been volunteering with a local Lego League.\u00a0 Have you heard about them?\u00a0 They use the Lego Mindstorm NXT which is robotic Lego&#8217;s.\u00a0 You can go to their web site at usfirst.org and check them out if you are interested in what they&#8217;re all about.\u00a0 Each year they have a challenge that has to do with the environment.\u00a0 Last year it was alternative sources of fuel.\u00a0 This year the challenge is on global warming and what you can do in your community to help.<\/p>\n<p>There is a state competition in December and the team that wins there, goes on to Atlanta to participate in the World competition.\u00a0 There will be teams from China, Germany and many other countries.\u00a0 I absolutely love working with these kids.\u00a0 These are our future engineers.\u00a0 Not only do they win trophies, but they also can get schlorships to some pretty impressive colleges just because of their involvement with this so I feel very blessed to be a part of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been volunteering with a local Lego League.\u00a0 Have you heard about them?\u00a0 They use the Lego Mindstorm NXT which is robotic Lego&#8217;s.\u00a0 You can go to their web site at usfirst.org and check them out if you are interested in what they&#8217;re all about.\u00a0 Each year they have a challenge that has to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/raymondwhitfield\/2008\/10\/26\/lego-league\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lego League&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,6,7,8,9,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-pcsoftwareprograming","category-current-issues","category-education","category-energyfuelrecycling","category-entertainment","category-friends-family","category-just-my-opinion","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/raymondwhitfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/raymondwhitfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/raymondwhitfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/raymondwhitfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/raymondwhitfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/raymondwhitfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/raymondwhitfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/raymondwhitfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/raymondwhitfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}