{"id":257,"date":"2012-08-13T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T01:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.david.runneals.com\/?p=257"},"modified":"2012-08-13T09:50:57","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T14:50:57","slug":"fair-life-august-13th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blog.david.runneals.com\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"Fair Life &#8211; August 13th: Bratney 4-H Robotics Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.david.runneals.com\/?cat=33\" target=\"_blank\">Fair Life<\/a>, is a featured series I&#8217;m writing on the 2012 Iowa State Fair. I&#8217;m going to try to post something different each day I&#8217;m at the fair that features some behind-the-scenes looks at different aspects of the state fair along with factual information.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday and Saturday, we hosted the Iowa 4-H Bratney Robotics Challenge. The challenge has 2 parts, a Lego NxT Robotics challenge &amp; a Junk Drawer Challenge. The NxT challenge is kind of like FIRST Lego League, but easier, since the teams are only given 2 hours to design, build, and program their Lego robots and design and build their junk drawer robots. Photos will be up soon and I&#8217;ll link to them once they are up. Here&#8217;s a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.desmoinesregister.com\/dmr\/index.php\/2012\/08\/11\/robots-battle-at-the-iowa-state-fair\/\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> that was written on the Robotics Challenge that appeared in the Des Moines Register! It also appeared on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/article\/20120812\/STATEFAIR\/308120049\/State-Fair-Stories-Eager-engineers-take-robotics-challenge\" target=\"_blank\">front page<\/a> this morning (2 days later!)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fair Life, is a featured series I&#8217;m writing on the 2012 Iowa State Fair. I&#8217;m going to try to post something different each day I&#8217;m at the fair that features some behind-the-scenes looks at different aspects of the state fair along with factual information. On Friday and Saturday, we hosted the Iowa 4-H Bratney Robotics&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.david.runneals.com\/?p=257\" title=\"Continue reading &lsquo;Fair Life &#8211; August 13th: Bratney 4-H Robotics Challenge&rsquo;\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fair-life","category-isf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.david.runneals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.david.runneals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.david.runneals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.david.runneals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.david.runneals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.david.runneals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.david.runneals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.david.runneals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.david.runneals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}