{"id":18943,"date":"2018-06-17T12:32:51","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T11:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18943"},"modified":"2018-06-17T12:32:51","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T11:32:51","slug":"pi-wars-2019-dates-announced-find-out-more-and-apply-to-enter-our-international-raspberry-pi-robotics-challenge-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18943","title":{"rendered":"Pi Wars 2019 &#8211; dates announced &#8211; find out more and apply to enter our international Raspberry Pi Robotics Challenge Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Logo-v2-RGB.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18044\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Logo-v2-RGB.jpg?resize=560%2C207&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Logo-v2-RGB.jpg?w=9190&amp;ssl=1 9190w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Logo-v2-RGB.jpg?resize=300%2C111&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Logo-v2-RGB.jpg?resize=768%2C283&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Logo-v2-RGB.jpg?resize=1024%2C378&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Logo-v2-RGB.jpg?resize=560%2C207&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Logo-v2-RGB.jpg?resize=260%2C96&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Logo-v2-RGB.jpg?resize=160%2C59&amp;ssl=1 160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Logo-v2-RGB.jpg?w=1120&amp;ssl=1 1120w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Logo-v2-RGB.jpg?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tim Richardson and I are pleased to announce that our next <a href=\"https:\/\/piwars.org\">Pi Wars<\/a> competition will take place on 30th &amp; 31st March 2019. The competition, which has grown substantially since its inception in 2014, last year attracted over 150 applicants for the 76 available places. We are hopeful that we will have a similar response for the 2019 event. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/piwars.org\/2019-competition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">find out more information here<\/a>\u00a0and you can <a href=\"https:\/\/piwars.org\/2019-competition\/apply\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">apply to enter here<\/a>. If you have any questions about the competition, please <a href=\"https:\/\/piwars.org\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contact us through the Pi Wars website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Pi-Noon-battle.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-18944\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Pi-Noon-battle.jpg?resize=560%2C420&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Pi-Noon-battle.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Pi-Noon-battle.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Pi-Noon-battle.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Pi-Noon-battle.jpg?resize=560%2C420&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Pi-Noon-battle.jpg?resize=260%2C195&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Pi-Noon-battle.jpg?resize=160%2C120&amp;ssl=1 160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Pi-Noon-battle.jpg?w=1120&amp;ssl=1 1120w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Pi-Noon-battle.jpg?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Richardson and I are pleased to announce that our next Pi Wars competition will take place on 30th &amp; 31st March 2019. The competition, which has grown substantially since its inception in 2014, last year attracted over 150 applicants&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18943\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,19,138,45],"tags":[220,217,771,219],"class_list":["post-18943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-competitions","category-events","category-pi-wars","category-robotics","tag-lasers","tag-pi-wars","tag-robotics","tag-sharks"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pi Wars 2019 - dates announced - find out more and apply to enter our international Raspberry Pi Robotics Challenge Competition - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18943\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pi Wars 2019 - dates announced - find out more and apply to enter our international Raspberry Pi Robotics Challenge Competition - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tim Richardson and I are pleased to announce that our next Pi Wars competition will take place on 30th &amp; 31st March 2019. 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