{"id":71743,"date":"2020-02-16T01:42:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T05:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2020\/02\/16\/saturday-night-first-first-3\/"},"modified":"2020-02-18T17:02:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T21:02:33","slug":"saturday-night-first-first-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2020\/02\/16\/saturday-night-first-first-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday night \u2013 first first"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nice long day here. A walk to -12\u00b0F\u2026 Considerably warmer than it might’ve been but still friggin cold. I noticed before coming to bed but it was about 27\u00b0 above zero Fahrenheit\u2026 That’s almost a 40\u00b0 swing the day. That would be like having it 50\u00b0 in the morning and 90\u00b0 at night. Guess that’s like the desert or something.<\/p>\n

I spent the entire day at the Vermont first tech challenge ( FTC) event at CVU high school. I got there around 7:15 am but the judges had been there since 6 AM\ufffc\ufffc\ufffc. I headed towards home around 6 PM\u2026 So about 11 hours. It was an amazing event. We had 31 teams\u2026 13 of which were from Vermont and the balance from neighboring states. I haven’t been to a first event in at least five years\u2026 It’s a very well run exercise in chaos. The teams are generally between five and seven high school students. They all collaborate on a single robot about 20 inches on a side. The robot is operating wirelessly and has to perform some pretty amazing tasks\u2026 It needs to grab these blocks move them under some obstacles and then stack them. Some parts of the competition our one on one and some of them are co-opetition’s with other teams. The whole thing is underscored Buy a concept called “gracious professionalism”\u2026 We’re teams help each other even as they compete. It was an incredible display of good sportsmanship all Through the day. It was amazing to see the technical achievements of some of these teams. I have to say the Vermont teams need to become more sophisticated\u2026 And that’s what I’m hoping to help on. Do you like<\/p>\n

I was there to gather information\u2026 And show a little nerd pride\u2026 I had every blinking gadget on me that I don’t. I think for this crowd it worked well\ufffc<\/p>\n

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We had Miss Vermont and miss Jr Vermont there\u2026 Both are pursuing stem careers. They were really fun to hang out with. There’s been a few hours going around talking to the teams. Miss Vermont saying the national anthem beautifully. To kick off the competition\ufffc<\/p>\n

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In the end\u2026 Most of the big prizes went to out of state teams\u2026 But that was fine. Vermont crew had a pretty good showing. And we learned a lot more about what we’re going to need to up our game here in the state. I’m really looking forward to working on that.<\/p>\n

Right now I’m just really looking forward to getting some sleep.<\/p>\n

More tomorrow!\ufffc<\/p>\n

Nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n

-\ufffc-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nice long day here. A walk to -12\u00b0F\u2026 Considerably warmer than it might’ve been but still friggin cold. I noticed before coming to bed but it was about 27\u00b0 above zero Fahrenheit\u2026 That’s almost a 40\u00b0 swing the day. That would be like having it 50\u00b0 in the morning and 90\u00b0 at night. Guess that’s … Continue reading Saturday night \u2013 first first<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71743","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\/71743","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=71743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71756,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71743\/revisions\/71756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}