{"id":15156,"date":"2019-02-20T08:09:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T16:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=15156"},"modified":"2019-02-22T08:39:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T16:39:29","slug":"el-dorado-golden-hawks-take-second-place-in-cal-poly-slos-build-a-thon-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=15156","title":{"rendered":"El Dorado Golden Hawks take second place in Cal Poly SLO&#8217;s &#8220;build-a-thon&#8221; competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few El Dorado High School Science Olympiad students recently went to California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo to compete in a \u201cbuild-a-thon\u201d and took 2nd out of 30 participants!<\/p>\n<p>The Golden Hawks won with their \u201cExoSkelton\u201d invention, a device that can be worn in times of natural disaster for firefighters or first responders. The device makes it possible for individuals to lift huge amounts of weight. They solved a problem\u2026how to rescue in the event of a natural disaster, when you might have limited access to vehicles\u00a0or people.<\/p>\n<p>They\u00a0students had to not only design the product, but also present in front of a large crowd of people and judges. Great work, EDHS students!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/El-Dorado-High-Build-a-Thon-2-20-19-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15160\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/El-Dorado-High-Build-a-Thon-2-20-19-2.jpg\" alt=\"EDHS students at Cal Poly SLO.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/El-Dorado-High-Build-a-Thon-2-20-19-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/El-Dorado-High-Build-a-Thon-2-20-19-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/El-Dorado-High-Build-a-Thon-2-20-19-2-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/El-Dorado-High-Build-a-Thon-2-20-19.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15159\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/El-Dorado-High-Build-a-Thon-2-20-19.jpg\" alt=\"EDHS students at Cal Poly SLO.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/El-Dorado-High-Build-a-Thon-2-20-19.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/El-Dorado-High-Build-a-Thon-2-20-19-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/El-Dorado-High-Build-a-Thon-2-20-19-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/El-Dorado-High-Build-a-Thon-2-20-19-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15158\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/El-Dorado-High-Build-a-Thon-2-20-19-3.jpg\" alt=\"EDHS students at Cal Poly SLO.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/El-Dorado-High-Build-a-Thon-2-20-19-3.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/El-Dorado-High-Build-a-Thon-2-20-19-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/El-Dorado-High-Build-a-Thon-2-20-19-3-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few El Dorado High School Science Olympiad students recently went to California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo to compete in a \u201cbuild-a-thon\u201d and took&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1177],"tags":[1955,1496,1666,17,1495],"class_list":["post-15156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school","tag-academics","tag-edhs","tag-el-dorado","tag-el-dorado-high-school","tag-golden-hawks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}