{"id":246821,"date":"2017-02-20T06:06:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T20:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=246821"},"modified":"2017-02-20T06:06:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T20:06:24","slug":"sda-school-compete-lego-league-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sda-school-compete-lego-league-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"SDA School to compete in Lego League contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_246824\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-246824\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Lego-Robotics-Team-pix.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-246824\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Lego-Robotics-Team-pix-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"First lady Diann Torres donates $300 to the Saipan SDA School Lego Robotics Team on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 201. (Contributed Photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-246824\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-246824\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First lady Diann Torres donates $300 to the Saipan SDA School Lego Robotics Team on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 201. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>First lady Diann Torres donated $300 to the Saipan SDA School Lego Robotics Team on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017,  to help the students achieve their goals for this year\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<p>The team will be travelling to Walla Walla, Washington next week to compete in the first Lego League competition, a worldwide organization that gives students the chance to identify a problem and work toward a solution. <\/p>\n<p>This year the Saipan SDA School Lego Robotics team chose to research human interaction with coral reefs and came up with a way to make that interaction better.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>They have conducted beach cleanups around Saipan and are working toward implementing Bio-Rock Technology to help grow coral and improve the oceanic environment around Saipan so that coral can regrow naturally. <\/p>\n<p>The students are working on producing a video to get resorts and sponsors involved in their efforts to resolve\/lessen the coral problems of Saipan. <\/p>\n<p>When they compete on Feb. 26 the SDA team will present their research and show their progress in programming while completing challenges with their Lego robots. <\/p>\n<p>The SDA team would like to thank all of their sponsors: the SDA Dental Clinic, Torres, Caf\u00e9 MangoSix, Got Chiba, Nancy Gottfried, Douglas Daley, Frank Stewart, Coconut Scanning, and the Governor\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First lady Diann Torres donated $300 to the Saipan SDA School Lego Robotics Team on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":246824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15653,15654,15655,10710],"class_list":["post-246821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-coconut-scanning","tag-douglas-daley","tag-frank-stewart","tag-walla-walla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}