{"id":10592,"date":"2016-02-25T16:45:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T21:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=10592"},"modified":"2016-02-25T16:45:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T21:45:29","slug":"174366-crushing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2016\/02\/25\/174366-crushing\/","title":{"rendered":"174\/366: Crushing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned a few times, SteelyKid is part of an Odyssey of the Mind team through her school, working on a problem to build a structure from balsa wood and glue that will hold as much weight as possible. They&#8217;ve been hard at work the last several weeks, and completed a test structure last night, shown here just prior to testing:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10593\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10593\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2016\/02\/sm_semifinal_structure.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10593\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2016\/02\/sm_semifinal_structure.jpg\" alt=\"SteelyKid&#039;s OM team&#039;s balsa wood structure, ready for testing.\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10593\" srcset=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/sm_semifinal_structure.jpg 600w, http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/sm_semifinal_structure-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10593\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SteelyKid&#8217;s OM team&#8217;s balsa wood structure, ready for testing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This ended up supporting about 53 pounds before it collapsed, which means it could&#8217;ve held up at least one of the team members. Not too shabby. The kids were very fired up for the crushing process, and justly pleased with themselves for the result.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, now we need to make <em>another<\/em> one just like it, and hope that it holds as well. A process complicated by the fact that I&#8217;ve been the coach assisting with the construction, and I&#8217;ll be away next week during both of the team&#8217;s practices, giving a talk at the University of Illinois. And the competition is next Saturday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned a few times, SteelyKid is part of an Odyssey of the Mind team through her school, working on a problem to build a structure from balsa wood and glue that will hold as much weight as possible. They&#8217;ve been hard at work the last several weeks, and completed a test structure last&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2016\/02\/25\/174366-crushing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">174\/366: Crushing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[684,2,50,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-684","category-personal","category-pictures","category-steelykid","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}