{"id":155,"date":"2007-10-29T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2007\/10\/29\/they-are-16-years-old\/"},"modified":"2007-10-29T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T16:00:00","slug":"they-are-16-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2007\/10\/they-are-16-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"They are 16 years old!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you read <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.com\/jimgris\/entry\/opensolaris_university_world_tour_nanjing\">Jim Grisanzio&apos;s blog<\/a> like many, you have already known about our ACM\/ICPC contest in Nanjing and seen this picture.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2143\/1775761314_6a3b75ae26.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<p>They are high-school kids!  These two are 17 and their teammates are even younger.  They, about 10 high-schoolers, are guests in this college-only event.  They would go through the contest like real teams, but won&apos;t be eligible for winnning.<\/p>\n<p>I chatted with them briefly.  They have only heard about Solaris prior to this contest.  &#8220;It seems very powerful.  Everything that is supposed to work really does.&#8221;  Jim had a conversation with them too &mdash; in English.  They are not shy, they know they probably won&apos;t win, but they knew the future will be theirs.<\/p>\n<p>And I am real glad that they learned Solaris already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you read Jim Grisanzio&apos;s blog like many, you have already known about our ACM\/ICPC contest in Nanjing and seen this picture. They are high-school kids! These two are 17 and their teammates are even younger. They, about 10 high-schoolers, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2007\/10\/they-are-16-years-old\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[77],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}