{"id":45,"date":"2023-03-06T14:24:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T20:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/outreach\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:38:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:38:02","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/outreach\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\"><ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/outreach\/2026\/04\/28\/first-lego-partnership-update\/\">FIRST &amp; LEGO Partnership Update<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\"><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__featured-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/outreach\/files\/2025\/04\/1-14-25-NEWS-Lego-League-4572w-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"FIRST LEGO League team, the Cosmic Snowballs, are picture with awards received at qualifier tournament.\" style=\"\" \/><\/div><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/outreach\/2025\/04\/24\/meet-the-cosmic-snowballs-2\/\">Meet the Cosmic Snowballs<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Meet the Cosmic Snowballs: a team that embodies positivity, resilience, and sportsmanship with everything they do.&nbsp;&nbsp; The Cosmic Snowballs will be heading to Worcester, Massachusetts to compete at WAFFLE, a global post-season competition. After only competing together for two years, this team will represent Iowa internationally for the second year in a row.&nbsp;&nbsp; Creativity, collaboration,\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/outreach\/2025\/04\/24\/meet-the-cosmic-snowballs-2\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Meet the Cosmic Snowballs<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__featured-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/outreach\/files\/2025\/04\/IMG_9644-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"FIRST LEGO League Team, innobots, pictured with coaches at 2025 FIRST LEGO League Iowa State Championship Tournament\" style=\"\" \/><\/div><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/outreach\/2025\/04\/18\/meet-the-innobots\/\">Meet the Innobots<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">This rookie team is already making waves! As an all-girls team, being led by first year coaches, with more than half of team members not having any FIRST LEGO League experience, the Innobots are proving themselves as an impressive group.&nbsp; Hailing from Waukee and Johnston, the Innobots were invited to the Western Edge Open in\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/outreach\/2025\/04\/18\/meet-the-innobots\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Meet the Innobots<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__featured-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/outreach\/files\/2025\/04\/CTRLAltDefeat-Lawmaker-edited-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"FIRST LEGO League Team, CtrlAltDefeat, Pictured with Award Certificates and Robot, alongside Lawmaker\" style=\"\" \/><\/div><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/outreach\/2025\/04\/18\/meet-ctrlaltdefeat\/\">Meet CtrlAltDefeat<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Get to know the talented students who are dedicated problem solvers and demonstrate exceptional teamwork \u2013 CtrlAltDefeat! This West Des Moines team represented Iowa at the FLL Challenge World Festival in Houston, Texas; this was their first time competing against teams throughout the world.&nbsp; To prepare for this exciting event, coaches Jude and Summer say\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/outreach\/2025\/04\/18\/meet-ctrlaltdefeat\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Meet CtrlAltDefeat<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"paragraph-widget paragraph-widget--text-html\"><div class=\"text-content\">\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-categories-list wp-block-categories\">\t<li class=\"cat-item cat-item-15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/outreach\/category\/first\/\">FIRST LEGO League<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t<li class=\"cat-item cat-item-18\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/outreach\/category\/recent-news\/\">News<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t<li class=\"cat-item cat-item-1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/outreach\/category\/uncategorized\/\">Uncategorized<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3562,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-45","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3249,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions\/3249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}