{"id":1029,"date":"2011-03-09T15:05:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T15:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nearpodcast.org\/pcast\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2011-03-09T15:05:36","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T15:05:36","slug":"f1-in-schools-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=1029","title":{"rendered":"F1 in Schools Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Noel McGuinness spoke to Gillian Harty. Schools Coordinator for the F1 in Schools competition where teams of school students design, build and race model Formula 1 cars.\u00a0 The competition is judged on car speed, design, verbal presentation and the team display stand.\u00a0 It encourages students to take an interest in science and technology in school and it is backed by the Irish Computer Society in response to skills shortages in computing and engineering.\u00a0 Following the regional finals and the national finals, the overall winners will represent Ireland in the F1 in Schools Technology Challenge World Championships.\u00a0 Listen to this podcast to hear more about this exciting competition.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6297\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/nearpodcast.org\/upload\/F1InSchoolsCompetition.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('6297','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/nearpodcast.org\/upload\/F1InSchoolsCompetition.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/nearpodcast.org\/upload\/F1InSchoolsCompetition.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=1029-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/nearpodcast.org\/upload\/F1InSchoolsCompetition.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"F1InSchoolsCompetition.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 9:35 &#8212; 8.8MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noel McGuinness spoke to Gillian Harty. Schools Coordinator for the F1 in Schools competition where teams of school students design, build and race model Formula 1 cars.\u00a0 The competition is judged on car speed, design, verbal presentation and the team display stand.\u00a0 It encourages students to take an interest in science and technology in school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6298\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/nearpodcast.org\/upload\/F1InSchoolsCompetition.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('6298','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/nearpodcast.org\/upload\/F1InSchoolsCompetition.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/nearpodcast.org\/upload\/F1InSchoolsCompetition.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=1029-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/nearpodcast.org\/upload\/F1InSchoolsCompetition.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"F1InSchoolsCompetition.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 9:35 &#8212; 8.8MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}