{"id":53532,"date":"2014-02-08T14:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T19:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=53532"},"modified":"2014-02-08T11:18:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T16:18:54","slug":"robospartans-robotics-championship-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=53532","title":{"rendered":"Robospartans Robotics Championship Bound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/4082-with-Rep-Hanna.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-53533\" alt=\"4082 with Rep Hanna\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/4082-with-Rep-Hanna-201x300.jpg\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/4082-with-Rep-Hanna-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/4082-with-Rep-Hanna-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/4082-with-Rep-Hanna-400x596.jpg 400w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/4082-with-Rep-Hanna.jpg 644w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a>Robospartans pictured with Rep. Richard Hanna (L-R) are Ryan Payne, Aidan Uvanni, Gwyneth LaMarche and Jason Martino.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>(New Hartford, NY \u2013 Feb. 3, 2014) The RoboSpartans Robotics team is heading to Pace University&#8217;s White Plains Campus for a regional 36-team tournament on\u00a0Feb. 16. Teams from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania will compete in the Hudson Valley Regional Championship for an opportunity to move on to an East-Coast Super Regional in April.<\/p>\n<p>The RoboSpartans won an opportunity to compete in their regional championship by receiving the Inspire Award, their league\u2019s highest honor, at their first season competition at St. John Fisher College in December. \u00a0\u00a0The team also received a Finalist Alliance trophy for placing 2nd\u00a0in the robot game.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In their second tournament, last month in Albany, the team added to their trophy collection with a Think Award, for documentation of their engineering journey.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to attending tournaments and working on robot improvements, the RoboSpartans recently met with United States Representative, Richard L. Hanna to give him an update on what they\u2019ve achieved this season including hosting over 200 high school students from three states at SUNYIT in December for the area\u2019s inaugural FIRST \u00aeTech Challenge Qualifying Tournament.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The RoboSpartans each received a Congressional honor and flag that flew over the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>The RoboSpartans are a 4th\u00a0season, privately funded, high school level robotics team participating in FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC). \u00a0Team members are from New Hartford, Whitesboro\u00a0and Utica School Districts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robospartans pictured with Rep. Richard Hanna (L-R) are Ryan Payne, Aidan Uvanni, Gwyneth LaMarche and Jason Martino. (New Hartford, NY \u2013 Feb. 3, 2014) The RoboSpartans Robotics team is heading to Pace University&#8217;s White Plains Campus for a regional 36-team tournament on\u00a0Feb. 16. Teams from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}