{"id":5719,"date":"2014-04-04T08:16:19","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T12:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/?p=5719"},"modified":"2014-04-09T12:33:58","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T16:33:58","slug":"still-time-to-celebrate-with-robots-and-students-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2014\/04\/still-time-to-celebrate-with-robots-and-students-this-weekend.html","title":{"rendered":"Still Time to Celebrate with Robots and Students this Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FRC<\/a><\/p>\n

One more weekend of exciting robot competitions!The SOLIDWORKS community is always looking for a great event to celebrate engineering and design. \u00a0There are local user group meetings held through the\u00a0SolidWorks User Group network<\/a>. \u00a0 Once a year, \u00a0it is\u00a0SolidWorks World<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"FRC<\/a><\/p>\n

This weekend, there are FIRST robot events happening all over the US and Canada. \u00a0There may be one near where you live. \u00a0The events showcase great designs and the work of talented high school students. \u00a0They are free to attend and children are welcome. \u00a0The full list of events from now until the end of April are at\u00a0here<\/a>. \u00a0If you can’t attend, many of the events are in a\u00a0webcast<\/a>\u00a0on Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n

\"FRC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Regional<\/td>\nWestern Canada Regional<\/td>\nThe Olympic Oval<\/td>\nCalgary, AB\u00a0 Canada<\/td>\n03-Apr – 05-Apr-2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Regional<\/td>\nWindsor Essex Great Lakes Regional<\/td>\nUniversity of Windsor<\/td>\nWindsor, ON\u00a0 Canada<\/td>\n03-Apr – 05-Apr-2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Regional<\/td>\nSilicon Valley Regional<\/td>\nSan Jose State University<\/td>\nSan Jose, CA\u00a0 USA<\/td>\n03-Apr – 05-Apr-2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Regional<\/td>\n\u00a0Colorado Regional<\/td>\nDaniel L. Ritchie Center<\/td>\nDenver, CO\u00a0 USA<\/td>\n03-Apr – 05-Apr-2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Regional<\/td>\n\u00a0South Florida Regional<\/td>\nGreat Fort Lauderdale & Broward County Convention Center<\/td>\nFort Lauderdale, FL\u00a0 USA<\/td>\n03-Apr – 05-Apr-2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Regional<\/td>\nMidwest Regional<\/td>\nUIC Pavilion<\/td>\nChicago, IL\u00a0 USA<\/td>\n03-Apr – 05-Apr-2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Regional<\/td>\nBayou Regional<\/td>\nPontchartrain Center<\/td>\nKenner, LA\u00a0 USA<\/td>\n03-Apr – 05-Apr-2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Regional<\/td>\nChesapeake Regional<\/td>\nUniversity of Maryland<\/td>\nCollege Park, MD\u00a0 USA<\/td>\n03-Apr – 05-Apr-2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Regional<\/td>\nLas Vegas Regional<\/td>\nCashman Center<\/td>\nLas Vegas, NV\u00a0 USA<\/td>\n03-Apr – 05-Apr-2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Regional<\/td>\nNew York City Regional<\/td>\nJacob K. Javits Convention Center<\/td>\nNew York, NY\u00a0 USA<\/td>\n04-Apr – 06-Apr-2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Regional<\/td>\nLone Star Regional<\/td>\nGeorge R. Brown Convention Center<\/td>\nHouston, TX\u00a0 USA<\/td>\n04-Apr – 06-Apr-2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
New England
\nDistrict Event<\/td>\n		Pine Tree District Event<\/td>\nAndroscoggin Bank Colisee<\/td>\nLewiston, ME\u00a0 USA<\/td>\n04-Apr – 05-Apr-2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pacific Northwest
\nDistrict Event<\/td>\n		PNW\u00a0FIRST\u00a0Robotics Oregon State University District Event<\/td>\nOregon State University<\/td>\nCorvallis, OR\u00a0 USA<\/td>\n04-Apr – 05-Apr-2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Thank you to all the event organizers, mentors, teachers, parents and students that volunteer their time to put on these events. \u00a0Marie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One more weekend of exciting robot competitions!The SOLIDWORKS community is always looking for a great event to celebrate engineering and design. \u00a0There are local user group meetings held through the\u00a0SolidWorks User Group network. \u00a0 Once a year, \u00a0it is\u00a0SolidWorks World.<\/p>\n... Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":5722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5203,4015,5219],"tags":[3934,3930,4549,4447,4976,5418],"class_list":["post-5719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-mechanical-engineering","category-robotics-2","tag-3d","tag-cad","tag-frc","tag-robotics","tag-robots","tag-usfirst"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5725,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5719\/revisions\/5725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}