{"id":2255,"date":"2016-01-19T13:14:54","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T13:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicinedev.st-andrews.ac.uk\/?p=2255"},"modified":"2016-01-19T13:14:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T13:14:54","slug":"st-andrews-tournament-of-first-lego-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/st-andrews-tournament-of-first-lego-league\/","title":{"rendered":"St Andrews tournament of First Lego League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2267 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/01\/Picture1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Picture1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>Angela Martinelli and Chiara Diquigiovanni, both working in the Paracchini research group, helped run the First Lego League (FLL;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstlegoleague.org\/\">http:\/\/www.firstlegoleague.org\/<\/a>) tournament in St Andrews. FLL is a global science and technology competition that challenges young people to think like scientists and engineers. It involves over 250,000 young people every year. This initiative is run in Scotland through one of working groups of the Young Academy of Scotland (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstlegoleague.org\/\">http:\/\/www.firstlegoleague.org\/<\/a>\u00a0).\u00a0 Children have fun learning how to build, test and program a robot while thinking about real world problems.\u00a0 FLL aims to inspire children and get \u00a0them excited about science and to learn to work in a team.<\/p>\n<p>Nine teams of about eight children took part in the St Andrews Regional Tournament.\u00a0 The projects focussed on solving waste problems.\u00a0 The winning team &#8212; Uni-Bears&#8211; will compete in the UK Finals!\u00a0 \u201cIt was an exciting and enjoyable day!\u201d said Angela \u201cIt was great to see the enthusiasm of the participants when they presented their ideas to reduce trash.\u201d.\u00a0 Chiara added &#8220;It was fascinating seeing the creativity and the efforts put in by the teams to recycle rubbish!\u201c and \u201cHow many wonderful ideas to reuse waste items, such as crisp packaging! \u201c<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"smallText\">contact:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/person\/sp58\">Dr Silvia Paracchini<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in the School of Medicine helped run the First Lego League tournament in St Andrews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[397,500],"class_list":["post-2255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorised","tag-dr-silvia-paracchini","tag-first-lego-league"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 06:11:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}