{"id":1598,"date":"2007-12-02T04:02:09","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T11:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2007-12-02T10:31:13","modified_gmt":"2007-12-02T17:31:13","slug":"lego-robots-battle-at-legoland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1598","title":{"rendered":"Lego Robots Battle at Legoland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/blr-robots01.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/blr-robots01.jpg','popup','width=350,height=251,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/blr-robots01-tm.jpg\" height=\"143\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Blr-Robots01\" \/><\/a>Teams from 59 elementary and middle schools traveled to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.legoland.com\/California.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Legoland<\/a><\/strong> yesterday (December 1, 2007) to compete in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstlegoleague.org\/calendar.aspx?pid=210&amp;action=showevent&amp;eventid=1427\" target=\"_blank\">First Lego League Championship Tournament<\/a><\/strong>. The competition pits &#8220;children around the globe against one another in robotics building and programming competitions, team Hackn&#8217;Botz [from Burbank, CA] has worked on training and building its robot for the last two months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The students must work together to program the robot&#8217;s brain to perform different missions on a pre-made map. As an added theme and learning requirement, all the missions make a lesson in conservation and green living.<br \/>\nSee, Legoland does occasionally give back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, none of this was free. Legoland still charges a $20 admission for team members and coaches and $25.95 for friends and family. How else are they going to pay for that new aquarium?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.burbankleader.com\/articles\/2007\/12\/01\/education\/blr-robots01.txt\" target=\"_blank\">Burbank Leader<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teams from 59 elementary and middle schools traveled to Legoland yesterday (December 1, 2007) to compete in the First Lego League Championship Tournament. The competition pits &#8220;children around the globe against one another in robotics building and programming competitions, team Hackn&#8217;Botz [from Burbank, CA] has worked on training and building its robot for the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,37,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}