{"id":201683,"date":"2026-01-18T21:55:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T02:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=201683"},"modified":"2026-01-18T21:55:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T02:55:39","slug":"robotics-teams-compete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/01\/18\/robotics-teams-compete\/","title":{"rendered":"Robotics teams compete&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"415\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2026-robotics-competition.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-201684\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Two dozen robotics teams gathered at Van Wert High School for Saturday\u2019s 10th annual Van Wert FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) Robotics qualifier.\u00a0The daylong competition was one of 12 qualifying tournaments held around Ohio, with 2-4 teams from each qualifier advancing to the state championship. Van Wert will return to competition next month in Cleveland. <em>Photo provided<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two dozen robotics teams gathered at Van Wert High School for Saturday\u2019s 10th annual Van Wert FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) Robotics qualifier.\u00a0The daylong competition was one of 12 qualifying tournaments held around Ohio, with 2-4 teams from each qualifier advancing to the state championship. Van Wert will return to competition next month in Cleveland. Photo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 05:33:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201697,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201683\/revisions\/201697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}