{"id":3109,"date":"2021-11-30T09:44:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T09:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/?p=3109"},"modified":"2021-11-30T09:44:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T09:44:04","slug":"school-of-computing-to-host-first-lego-league-challenge-canterbury-regional-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2021\/11\/30\/school-of-computing-to-host-first-lego-league-challenge-canterbury-regional-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"School of Computing to host FIRST LEGO League Challenge Canterbury Regional Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<a href=\"http:\/\/kent.ac.uk\/computing\"> School of Computing<\/a> at the University of Kent will host the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstlegoleague.org\/\">FIRST LEGO League Challenge<\/a> Canterbury Regional Tournament on Wednesday 8 December 2021, in collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theiet.org\/\">The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The global STEM challenge for 9-16 year olds aims to inspire youth and grow their critical thinking, coding, and design skills through hands-on STEM learning and robotics. The LEGO League sees teams of young people competing against each other, to encourage an interest in real-world themes and develop key skills that are crucial for their future careers.<\/p>\n<p>In this regional tournament, 6 teams from local Primary and Secondary schools will compete in four challenges, which they have developed with programmed robots while at school. The four challenges are: Innovation Project, Core Values, Robot Design and Robot Game.<\/p>\n<p>The overall winning team will be offered a place in the England and Wales National Final, taking place in February 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Further information about FIRST LEGO League is available here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstlegoleague.org\/\">https:\/\/www.firstlegoleague.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/files\/2021\/11\/FLL-CMYK_Challenge-horiz-full-color.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3112\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/files\/2021\/11\/FLL-CMYK_Challenge-horiz-full-color.jpg\" alt=\"FIRST LEGO League Challenge\" width=\"308\" height=\"69\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/files\/2021\/11\/CARGO-CONNECT-Logo-Horizontal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3111\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/files\/2021\/11\/CARGO-CONNECT-Logo-Horizontal.jpg\" alt=\"Cargo Connect\" width=\"192\" height=\"115\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Computing at the University of Kent will host the FIRST LEGO League Challenge Canterbury Regional Tournament on Wednesday 8 December 2021, in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2021\/11\/30\/school-of-computing-to-host-first-lego-league-challenge-canterbury-regional-tournament\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55813,"featured_media":3110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3114,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions\/3114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}