{"id":263,"date":"2012-01-08T00:24:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T05:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/?p=263"},"modified":"2012-01-08T00:26:57","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T05:26:57","slug":"interview-about-first-and-fll-in-the-brandon-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/interview-about-first-and-fll-in-the-brandon-patch\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview about FIRST and FLL in the Brandon Patch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/20120107-Raptors-Awards-Ceremony.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/20120107-Raptors-Awards-Ceremony-300x199.jpg?resize=300%2C199\" alt=\"\" title=\"20120107 Robotics Raptors Awards Ceremony\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/20120107-Raptors-Awards-Ceremony.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/20120107-Raptors-Awards-Ceremony.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/brandon.patch.com\/users\/linda-chion-kenney\" title=\"Linda Chion Kenney\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"extlink\">Linda Chion Kenney<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/brandon.patch.com\" title=\"Brandon Patch\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"extlink\">Brandon Patch<\/a> interviewed me today at a local FLL tournament.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brandon.patch.com\/articles\/bill-shaw-on-first-lego-league-mindstorms-robotics-challenges-for-kids\" title=\"Patch Talk: Bill Shaw on Lego, Kids, Mindstorms, Robotics and MOSI \" target=\"_blank\" class=\"extlink\">Patch Talk: Bill Shaw on Lego, Kids, Mindstorms, Robotics and MOSI <\/a><\/p>\n<p>My grammar was really bad but I was between rounds and pretty frazzled. Still, it was a nice piece of press!<\/p>\n<p>My teams did really well today. They stepped up and got serious about earning their spots at regionals. I&#8217;m proud to say that both teams are moving forward and they even took trophies!<\/p>\n<p>Robotic Raptors &#8211; Rising Stars Award<br \/>\nTerminators &#8211; Rookie Team Award (and that was with I believe nine rookie teams present!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linda Chion Kenney from the Brandon Patch interviewed me today at a local FLL tournament. Patch Talk: Bill Shaw on Lego, Kids, Mindstorms, Robotics and MOSI My grammar was really bad but I was between rounds and pretty frazzled. Still, it was a nice piece of press! My teams did really well today. They stepped &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/interview-about-first-and-fll-in-the-brandon-patch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Interview about FIRST and FLL in the Brandon Patch<\/span> <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":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1yjzF-4f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}