{"id":1035,"date":"2010-01-07T22:56:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T05:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.technicalley.com\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2010-01-07T22:56:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T05:56:39","slug":"first-lego-league-2009-14725-teams-from-56-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technicalley.com\/central\/blog\/2010\/01\/07\/first-lego-league-2009-14725-teams-from-56-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"FIRST Lego League 2009: 14,725 teams from 56 countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/technicalley.com\/central\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/fll-growth-chart1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1041\" src=\"https:\/\/technicalley.com\/central\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/fll-growth-chart1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"457\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technicalley.com\/central\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/fll-growth-chart1.jpg 457w, https:\/\/technicalley.com\/central\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/fll-growth-chart1-237x300.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\" \/><\/a>Over 140,000 children are participating in this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.technicalley.com\/the-first-vision-for-science-technology-and-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\">FIRST <\/a>Lego League (FLL) tournament, comprising 14,725 teams from 56 countries. That&#8217;s almost a 14% growth over last year&#8217;s participation, as <a href=\"http:\/\/firstlegoleague.org\/where-is-fll\/default.aspx?id=55\" target=\"_blank\">the chart on the FLL site<\/a> shows.<\/p>\n<p>Starting from the pilot tournament in 1998 in which 210 teams from 2 countries participated, FLL has grown steadily across the globe, and is now widely acknowledged as one of the best competitions to introduce kids to science and technology and motivate them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 140,000 children are participating in this year&#8217;s FIRST Lego League (FLL) tournament, comprising 14,725 teams from 56 countries. That&#8217;s almost a 14% growth over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,27,57],"tags":[162],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-lego-league","category-kids","category-mindstorms","tag-first","wpcat-54-id","wpcat-27-id","wpcat-57-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technicalley.com\/central\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technicalley.com\/central\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technicalley.com\/central\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technicalley.com\/central\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technicalley.com\/central\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/technicalley.com\/central\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technicalley.com\/central\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technicalley.com\/central\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technicalley.com\/central\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}