{"id":89905,"date":"2018-04-12T17:32:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T21:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=89905"},"modified":"2018-04-12T11:37:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T15:37:16","slug":"drone-teams-compete-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=89905","title":{"rendered":"Drone Teams Compete Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-88800\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/CNYDronesLogoWithWords-300x65.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"65\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/CNYDronesLogoWithWords-300x65.png 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/CNYDronesLogoWithWords-150x32.png 150w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/CNYDronesLogoWithWords-900x194.png 900w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/CNYDronesLogoWithWords-400x86.png 400w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/CNYDronesLogoWithWords.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Drone Teams Compete Sunday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Drone teams from Connecticut to Syracuse will compete in Rig Rescue, Central New York\u2019s first low-cost, open Team Drone Challenge,\u00a0Sunday, April 15, 2018, in the SUNY Polytechnic Institute Campus Center Gym.<\/p>\n<p>High school teams from West Haven Connecticut, Syracuse City Schools, Oneida City Schools, and Vernon Verona Central Schools will join local private groups, Team Tabor and Team RoboSpartans in a 9 element, oil platform themed competition on a 30 by 60-foot field.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s competition dispatches teams to navigate their drones through shark infested waters to help secure the facility and retrieve platform workers and data.<\/p>\n<p>Rig Rescue is part of CNY Drones&#8217; efforts to promote STEM, provide awareness of drone technology educational and employment opportunities and build a safe flying recreational drone community.<\/p>\n<p>Teams will begin practice at\u00a08:00am\u00a0on Sunday. The public is invited to view the free event starting with an opening ceremony at\u00a010:15am.\u00a0Flights will run throughout the day, ending with an awards ceremony at4:45pm.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to drone flying, spectators will be treated to interactive STEM exhibits including a test flight zone, flight simulator zone, and an Experience First Person View zone. The event is a community project, hosted by the SUNY Polytechnic Institute Academy of Model Aeronautics University Model Aviation Student Club, the first drone club of its kind in New York state.<\/p>\n<p>The focus will be on a day of competing, learning, sharing, and networking with local drone enthusiasts, engineers, and educators.\u00a0For more information on Rig Rescue, go to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnydrones.org\/\">www.CNYDrones.org<\/a>\u00a0or contact CNY Drones Administrator, Lisa Payne at 315-732-1001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drone Teams Compete Sunday Drone teams from Connecticut to Syracuse will compete in Rig Rescue, Central New York\u2019s first low-cost, open Team Drone Challenge,\u00a0Sunday, April 15, 2018, in the SUNY Polytechnic Institute Campus Center Gym. High school teams from West Haven Connecticut, Syracuse City Schools, Oneida City Schools, and Vernon Verona Central Schools will join [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23813,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89905","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=89905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}