{"id":130,"date":"2011-04-05T12:03:55","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T16:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/?p=130"},"modified":"2011-04-05T12:03:55","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T16:03:55","slug":"richmond-physics-olympics-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/2011\/04\/05\/richmond-physics-olympics-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Richmond Physics Olympics Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">Last weekend was the Richmond Physics Olympics.\u00a0 Fifteen teams of high school students competed in various fun events, building towers, floating boats, and throwing bags of sand off the third floor balcony into the science building atrium.\u00a0 Many thanks to the University of Richmond students who volunteered to help out with this event.\u00a0 Several of our students also had some fun with a video camera, proving that our students can goof off just as hard as they work.<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/files\/2011\/04\/Olympic-Training.m4v\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-134 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/files\/2011\/04\/olympic_training.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2635\"><div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-130-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"none\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/files\/2011\/04\/Olympic-Training.m4v?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/files\/2011\/04\/Olympic-Training.m4v\">http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/files\/2011\/04\/Olympic-Training.m4v<\/a><\/video><\/div><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_m4v\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/files\/2011\/04\/Olympic-Training.m4v\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/?powerpress_pinw=130-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/files\/2011\/04\/Olympic-Training.m4v\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Olympic-Training.m4v\">Download<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend was the Richmond Physics Olympics.\u00a0 Fifteen teams of high school students competed in various fun events, building towers, floating boats, and throwing bags of sand off the third floor balcony into the science building atrium.\u00a0 Many thanks to the University of Richmond students who volunteered to help out with this event.\u00a0 Several of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/2011\/04\/05\/richmond-physics-olympics-fun\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Richmond Physics Olympics Fun<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}