{"id":340,"date":"2015-01-28T01:09:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T01:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=340"},"modified":"2015-01-30T18:27:11","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T18:27:11","slug":"hooked-on-robotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"Hooking kids on robotics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/130522.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-343\" src=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/130522-287x300.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"448\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/130522-287x300.jpg 287w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/130522-979x1024.jpg 979w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/130522.jpg 1514w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 85vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The two busloads of seventh- and eighth-graders from Sterling who arrived at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Bethesda\u00a0were on a mission. They had come to test the underwater robots they built and to see which teams could maneuver their robots most effectively in a simulated oil-spill scenario.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/naval-program-hooks-loudoun-students-on-robotics\/2013\/05\/21\/35cf2c94-c162-11e2-bfdb-3886a561c1ff_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">students were participants in a Naval research program<\/a> to interest children in science and technology.<\/p>\n<p>Washington Post, May 22, 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two busloads of seventh- and eighth-graders from Sterling who arrived at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Bethesda\u00a0were on a mission. They had come to test the underwater robots they built and to see which teams could maneuver their robots most effectively in a simulated oil-spill scenario. The students were participants in a Naval &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=340\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hooking kids on robotics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3,6,80,19],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-loudoun-county","tag-schools","tag-sterling","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}