{"id":93204,"date":"2023-02-11T22:38:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T02:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=93204"},"modified":"2023-02-25T22:55:19","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T02:55:19","slug":"saturday-night-not-at-ftc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2023\/02\/11\/saturday-night-not-at-ftc\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday night – Not at FTC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

today was the day of Vermonts FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) Robotics competition. I was to have been the Emcee but I was still testing positive for Covid.. so I had to sit it out.\u00a0 \u00a0I was so sad to have missed it in person. but thanks to the great job the organizers did in streaming, I was able to watch the whole thing. My friend Scott, the Chair of FIRST in VT hosted the event instead of me.. and he did a really fabulous job !\u00a0 Better than I could have done for sure !. We had 19\u00a0 Vermont teams this year which was the most we’d ever had for a face to face event . It was such a well run event.\u00a0 \u00a0 I have deep appreciation for all the volunteers that put this together especially my friends Liz, Holly and Doug. We had opening talks by my friend and boss Kyle C from Beta and my friend Neda, who was on the Afghanistan FRC team before ebign evacuated to the US nearly 2 years ago. Both gave great talks !<\/p>\n

Thee are pics I took from the live stream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m so excited about how FTC and all the FIRST programs are growing in Vermont..!<\/p>\n

IIt was a bright and sunny day outside.. and even though I had to stay away from people.. I didn’t\u00a0 need to stay away from nature. Diane and I took a walk up near Gillette pond. We wanted to check out the new dam that the Richmond Land Trust is going to build up there. We were interested as frequent user f Gillette pond.. and as Richmond Parking advisory members. We were checking out the proposed parking situation up there. It looks like the RLT is doing a nice job to anticipate the\u00a0 parking needs of visitors<\/p>\n

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It’s so nice to be back home !<\/p>\n

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

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

today was the day of Vermonts FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) Robotics competition. I was to have been the Emcee but I was still testing positive for Covid.. so I had to sit it out.\u00a0 \u00a0I was so sad to have missed it in person. but thanks to the great job the organizers did in streaming, … Continue reading Saturday night – Not at FTC<\/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-93204","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\/93204","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=93204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93227,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93204\/revisions\/93227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}