{"id":15995,"date":"2019-04-04T21:41:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T04:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=15995"},"modified":"2019-04-04T21:41:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T04:41:23","slug":"arrow-electronics-supports-aspiring-innovators-at-first-robotics-regional-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=15995","title":{"rendered":"Arrow Electronics Supports Aspiring Innovators at FIRST Robotics Regional Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fmr-associated-content-region\">\n<div id=\"fmr-blog-mm-item\"><a class=\"colorbox init-colorbox-processed cboxElement\" href=\"https:\/\/www.3blmedia.com\/sites\/www.3blmedia.com\/files\/images\/ColoradoFIRST2019Regional.2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3blmedia.com\/sites\/www.3blmedia.com\/files\/styles\/fmr_page_photos_blog\/public\/images\/ColoradoFIRST2019Regional.2.jpg?itok=oo7Wfx2Z\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"blog-img-caption\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fmr-tweet--contents\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"fmr-meta-container--top\">\n<p>Arrow Electronics sponsored the <a href=\"http:\/\/coloradofirst.org\/COFIRST\/programs\/frc\/colorado-regional\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FIRST Robotics Colorado Regional Competition<\/a>, March 21-23, continuing its effort to guide the next generation of innovators forward. Held at the University of Denver, the competition drew 53 high school teams from Colorado, other western states and Mexico who showcased the robots they built over the last six weeks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"fmr-body\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-fmr-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>This year\u2019s competitors faced off in the game, Destination: Deep Space, set on the fictional Planet Primus. Two competing alliances combatted unpredictable terrain and weather patterns, making remote robot operation essential to their mission of collecting samples on the planet. The alliances were charged with gathering as many cargo pods as possible in two-and-a-half minutes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach team clearly demonstrated teamwork, gracious professionalism and strategic thinking in solving the competition\u2019s challenges. These are essential attributes for innovators, and we\u2019re proud to play a role in cultivating these skills,\u201d said Joe Verrengia, Arrow\u2019s global director of corporate social responsibility, who also served as a judge at the event.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado<em>FIRST<\/em>\u00a0distributed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/frc-events.firstinspires.org\/2019\/CODE\/awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">29 awards<\/a>\u00a0after the regional competition. Three teams secured spots at the\u00a0<em>FIRST<\/em>\u00a0Championship in Houston, Tex., on April 17-20 based on points scored in the competition, including teams from Denver, Longmont, and Monument, Colo.<\/p>\n<p>Other teams took spots in the world championship for winning awards in categories reflecting qualities that FIRST Robotics emphasizes with its participants, including design excellence, gracious professionalism and engineering inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>Students participating in\u00a0<em>FIRST<\/em>\u00a0are eligible to apply for over $80 million in scholarships from leading universities, colleges and companies. Arrow has sponsored the Colorado regional competition for six years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arrow Electronics sponsored the FIRST Robotics&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15996,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15995\/revisions\/15996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}