{"id":117707,"date":"2025-03-29T21:06:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T01:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=117707"},"modified":"2025-04-13T21:06:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T01:06:35","slug":"saturday-night-week-5-new-england-first-robotics-challenge-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2025\/03\/29\/saturday-night-week-5-new-england-first-robotics-challenge-qualifier\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday night – Week 5 New England First Robotics Challenge Qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

The day is finally here. \u00a0(and its a snowy one !) .\u00a0 Vermonts first ever New England\u00a0 FIRST Robotics Challenge\u00a0 (FRC) Qualifier.. actually its the first FRC event ever<\/em> in Vermont. This si the culmination of\u00a0 the work of sonme\u00a0 very talented people (Joe Chase, Mark Drapa and the rest of the FIRST iN Vermont org) , the UVM College of Engineering Math\u00a0 nd Science and and very generous 4 years of\u00a0 grant from the Argosy Foundation..Thanks to all those folks, Vermont has more than doubled the number of students participating in competitive robotics at all levels ..

Huge thanks also to to the university of Vermont for being our hosts this weekend. We have 32 teams here to compete from all over the North East..\u00a0 \u00a0counting the teams, their family and friends, and a very healthy crowd of local visitors we had more than 1000 attendees at the event.. The bleachers at Patrick Gym were crowded from Saturday morning untl the event closed at 3 PM on Sunday.\u00a0


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The good folks at Ben and Jerry’s had donated over 500 scoops of their finest .. and three of their finest scoopers. .. includien Michaella here.. who was on an\u00a0 FRC robotics team when she was in high school in Massachusets !

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What a day !!!.. THe stands at patrick Gym were full all day.. we estimated abotu 1000 people throuigh the day..
and theres another day full tomorrow.\u00a0
THanks to everyone for making this happen!!

good luck robot people !!!!
nite all, nite sam !<\/p>\n

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The day is finally here. \u00a0(and its a snowy one !) .\u00a0 Vermonts first ever New England\u00a0 FIRST Robotics Challenge\u00a0 (FRC) Qualifier.. actually its the first FRC event ever in Vermont. This si the culmination of\u00a0 the work of sonme\u00a0 very talented people (Joe Chase, Mark Drapa and the rest of the FIRST iN Vermont … Continue reading Saturday night – Week 5 New England First Robotics Challenge Qualifier<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117757,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117707\/revisions\/117757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}