{"id":64622,"date":"2020-03-12T12:56:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T16:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=64622"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:31","slug":"first-robotics-and-carleton-suspend-competition-as-first-robotics-canada-suspends-all-week-3-events-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2020\/first-robotics-and-carleton-suspend-competition-as-first-robotics-canada-suspends-all-week-3-events-nationwide\/","title":{"rendered":"FIRST Robotics Canada and Carleton Suspend Competition as FIRST Suspends Current Season Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n FIRST Robotics Canada and Carleton Suspend Competition as FIRST Suspends Current Season Worldwide\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

In light of recent health concerns surrounding COVID-19, FIRST<\/em> Robotics Canada has suspended all Week 3 FIRST <\/em>Robotics Competition Events, including Carleton University\u2019s Ontario District Event, originally scheduled to run from March 13-15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FIRST<\/em> Robotics Canada and Carleton University sincerely apologize for all inconveniences to teams and volunteers resulting from the suspension of this weekend\u2019s competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An official statement from FIRST on COVID-19\u2019s impact on FIRST events can be viewed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carleton University continues to follow the advice of Ottawa Public Health<\/a>, the Ontario Ministry of Health<\/a>, Public Health Ontario <\/a>and the Public Health Agency of Canada <\/a>for the latest information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) and recommendations for prevention. For more information, please visit Carleton\u2019s COVID-19 website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In light of recent health concerns surrounding COVID-19, FIRST Robotics Canada has suspended all Week 3 FIRST Robotics Competition Events, including Carleton University\u2019s Ontario District Event, originally scheduled to run from March 13-15. FIRST Robotics Canada and Carleton University sincerely apologize for all inconveniences to teams and volunteers resulting from the suspension of this weekend\u2019s competition. An official statement from FIRST […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":64623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-64622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-advisories","tag-faculty-of-engineering-and-design"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64622"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64639,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64622\/revisions\/64639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}