{"id":190,"date":"2017-01-10T02:17:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T02:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.team1787.com\/landing\/?p=190"},"modified":"2018-01-16T20:10:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T20:10:13","slug":"2017-season-kickoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.team1787.com\/landing\/2017-season-kickoff\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 Season Kickoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is now official! The 2017 FIRST Robotics build season has begun with a new year and a new challenge! But in order to find out what exactly the challenge was, the team headed down to Tri-C&#8217;s Unified Technology Center along with many other local teams to see the worldwide reveal of this year&#8217;s challenge.<\/p>\n<p>As it was teased for weeks prior, this year&#8217;s challenge is called FIRST Steamworks, and a newly released video can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EMiNmJW7enI\">here<\/a>, and more game details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstinspires.org\/robotics\/frc\/game-and-season\">here.<\/a> This year&#8217;s challenge is all about preparing for flight, by launching fuel into high and low goals, and placing gears on a spike. After the challenge reveal, some members of the team headed down to our headquarters to brainstorm some initial ideas, and in a matter of a few hours, our whiteboard went from this: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.team1787.com\/landing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9330-e1484013365667.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-197\" src=\"https:\/\/www.team1787.com\/landing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9330-e1484013365667-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"img_9330\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.team1787.com\/landing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9330-e1484013365667-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.team1787.com\/landing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9330-e1484013365667-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.team1787.com\/landing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9344.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-198\" src=\"https:\/\/www.team1787.com\/landing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9344-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"img_9344\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.team1787.com\/landing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9344-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.team1787.com\/landing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9344-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.team1787.com\/landing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9344-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.team1787.com\/landing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9344.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the ideas flowing and the challenge fresh in everyone&#8217;s minds, Team 1787 is excited for the upcoming season and competitions. Good luck to the thousands of teams competing across the globe, and happy build season!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is now official! The 2017 FIRST Robotics build season has begun with a new year and a new challenge! But in order to find out what exactly the challenge was, the team headed down to Tri-C&#8217;s Unified Technology Center along with many other local teams to see the worldwide reveal of this year&#8217;s challenge. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.team1787.com\/landing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.team1787.com\/landing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.team1787.com\/landing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.team1787.com\/landing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.team1787.com\/landing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.team1787.com\/landing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"https:\/\/www.team1787.com\/landing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.team1787.com\/landing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.team1787.com\/landing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.team1787.com\/landing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}