{"id":12449,"date":"2014-12-05T12:01:20","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T20:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/wsu-student-team-participates-in-national-chemical-car-competition\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T16:15:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T23:15:32","slug":"wsu-student-team-participates-in-national-chemical-car-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/wsu-student-team-participates-in-national-chemical-car-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"WSU student team participates in national chemical car competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>For the Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Kent&#8217;s Tony Troung was part of a group of Washington State University chemical engineering students who traveled to Atlanta earlier this month to participate in a national conference and chemical car competition.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The students from WSU&#8217;s student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) secured a spot in the competition after taking second place in last spring&#8217;s Pacific Northwest regional competition.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The competition, which included 35 teams from around the country, requires that a chemically-powered car travel 25 meters while carrying a sizable cargo and then stop as close as possible to the finish line.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>A group of WSU students originally developed the idea for the national AIChE competition more than a decade ago.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>At the conference, the WSU chemical car team members also participated in a poster competition and safety training. Several students attended a leadership training program and networking session with the executive officer committee and the young professionals of AIChE.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent&#8217;s Tony Troung was part of a group of Washington State University chemical engineering students who traveled to Atlanta earlier this month to participate in a national conference and chemical car competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-12449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12449"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}