{"id":63179,"date":"2015-05-08T09:55:19","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T16:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=63179"},"modified":"2015-05-08T09:57:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T16:57:58","slug":"palmdale-honors-robotics-world-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2015\/05\/08\/palmdale-honors-robotics-world-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Palmdale honors robotics world champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_63181\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63181\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Team-5012-Gryffingear-recognized-by-Palmdale-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63181\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Team-5012-Gryffingear-recognized-by-Palmdale-1.jpg\" alt=\"Team 5012 Gryffingear and Palmdale Mayor Jim Ledford. (contributed)\" width=\"624\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Team-5012-Gryffingear-recognized-by-Palmdale-1.jpg 624w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Team-5012-Gryffingear-recognized-by-Palmdale-1-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-63181\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Team 5012 Gryffingear and Palmdale Mayor Jim Ledford. (contributed)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>PALMDALE \u2013 The city of Palmdale recognized the students of <strong>Team 5012 Gryffingear<\/strong> for their world championship win at this week\u2019s council meeting. The robotics team from the Palmdale Aerospace Academy recently won the world champion title against more than 600 competitors at the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) World Championship in St. Louis, Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you connect young people with experts, leadership, mentoring, it creates a passion,\u201d said Palmdale Mayor Jim Ledford. \u201cThey prevailed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Team-5012-Gryffingear-recognized-by-Palmdale-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-63182\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Team-5012-Gryffingear-recognized-by-Palmdale-2.jpg\" alt=\"Team 5012 Gryffingear recognized by Palmdale 2\" width=\"317\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Team-5012-Gryffingear-recognized-by-Palmdale-2.jpg 317w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Team-5012-Gryffingear-recognized-by-Palmdale-2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><\/a>Gryffingear has been a FIRST robotics program participant since 2013, and it only took two years for the team to win first place. The team of approximately 35 members, including engineering, marketing, and design specialists from the Academy, participated in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>The academy\u2019s robotics team, designated FRC Team 5012, is named \u201cGryffingear,\u201d a reference to the Gryffindor House of Wizardry from the Harry Potter franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Gryffingear, as part of a three-team alliance, prevailed over 75 teams in the Newton Division of the world championship competition. From there, as part of a four-team alliance, Gryffingear advanced to the Einstein stage and competed against the other seven division winners, where they emerged as the 2015 FRC World Champions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ability for our students to win the world championship is astounding,\u201d said the Palmdale Aerospace Academy Headmaster Dr. Laura Herman. \u201cOur students have the opportunity to build relationships worldwide and share their experience to improve our cutting-edge programs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Previous related story<\/span>: <a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2015\/04\/27\/gryffingear-of-the-palmdale-aerospace-academy-wins-frc-world-championship-competition\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gryffingear of the Palmdale Aerospace Academy wins FRC World Championship Competition!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALMDALE \u2013 The city of Palmdale recognized the students of Team 5012 Gryffingear for their world championship win at this week\u2019s council meeting. The robotics team from the Palmdale Aerospace Academy recently won the world champion title against more than 600 competitors at the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) World Championship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}