{"id":21609,"date":"2023-06-14T07:56:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T06:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=21609"},"modified":"2023-06-14T07:59:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T06:59:19","slug":"pi-wars-2024-launches-apply-by-1st-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=21609","title":{"rendered":"Pi Wars 2024 launches &#8211; apply by 1st October!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/piwars.org\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21610\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2024-slide-1080p.jpg?resize=560%2C315&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2024-slide-1080p.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2024-slide-1080p.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2024-slide-1080p.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2024-slide-1080p.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2024-slide-1080p.jpg?resize=1536%2C864&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2024-slide-1080p.jpg?resize=560%2C315&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2024-slide-1080p.jpg?resize=260%2C146&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2024-slide-1080p.jpg?resize=160%2C90&amp;ssl=1 160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2024-slide-1080p.jpg?w=1120&amp;ssl=1 1120w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2024-slide-1080p.jpg?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/>Pi Wars<\/a>\u00a0is an international, challenge-based robotics competition in which teams build\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.raspberrypi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Raspberry Pi<\/a>-controlled robots and then compete in various non-destructive challenges to earn points. The competition takes place over a single weekend and at the end of each day, prizes, medals and trophies are awarded to those competing.<\/p>\n<p>We have just announced the 2024 competition will be held in Cambridge, UK on the weekend of 20th-21st April. The application deadline is 1st October, so get your thinking caps on! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>All the information you need is over on <a href=\"https:\/\/piwars.org\/2024-disaster-zone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">piwars.org<\/a>. If you want to get a flavour of past competitions and see the announcement of the 2024 event, take a look at the video below! If you&#8217;d like to hear us talking about the competition, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RmUdhjCr7Nw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">we were recently interviewed by the Tom&#8217;s Hardware Pi Cast<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Are you ready... for Pi Wars 2024: Disaster Zone?\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dkM9xBCUiK0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pi Wars\u00a0is an international, challenge-based robotics competition in which teams build\u00a0Raspberry Pi-controlled robots and then compete in various non-destructive challenges to earn points. The competition takes place over a single weekend and at the end of each day, prizes, medals&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=21609\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[45],"tags":[217],"class_list":["post-21609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics","tag-pi-wars"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pi Wars 2024 launches - apply by 1st October! - 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=21609\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pi Wars 2024 launches - apply by 1st October! - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pi Wars\u00a0is an international, challenge-based robotics competition in which teams build\u00a0Raspberry Pi-controlled robots and then compete in various non-destructive challenges to earn points. 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The exact date and venue have yet to be confirmed, but it is expected to be in early December in Cambridge, UK. 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