{"id":448,"date":"2006-11-17T21:50:47","date_gmt":"2006-11-18T02:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=448"},"modified":"2006-11-18T03:39:47","modified_gmt":"2006-11-18T08:39:47","slug":"space-elevators-and-legos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=448","title":{"rendered":"Space Elevators and Legos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"\/media\/FirstLego.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>I&#8217;ve posted about this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=334\">before<\/a>, the First Lego League (FLL) has a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usfirst.org\/about\/news\/FLL06_CHALLENGE_ANNOUNCEMENT_RELEASE.pdf\">Nano Quest Challenge<\/a>&#8220;, including the design (with Legos, of course) of a Space\u00a0Elevator.\u00a0 This is uber-cool.<\/p>\n<p>The NXT-STEP is keeping us <a href=\"http:\/\/thenxtstep.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/fll-mock-tournament.html#comments\">updated<\/a> on events in this competition.<\/p>\n<p>The UBC SnowStar team, the same that was in this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elevator2010.com\">Space Elevator Games<\/a>, visited the Robotics Club to give them the benefit of their experience and expertise.\u00a0 We also <a href=\"http:\/\/southdeltaleader.com\/portals-code\/list.cgi?paper=48&#038;cat=43&#038;id=773795&#038;more=\">learn<\/a> that UBC&#8217;s Steve Jones still plays with Legos (a mark of distinction) and went to Austria earlier this year to participate in a paper airplane contest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve posted about this before, the First Lego League (FLL) has a &#8220;Nano Quest Challenge&#8220;, including the design (with Legos, of course) of a Space\u00a0Elevator.\u00a0 This is uber-cool. The NXT-STEP is keeping us updated on events in this competition. The UBC SnowStar team, the same that was in this year&#8217;s Space Elevator Games, visited the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-entries","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}