{"id":2666,"date":"2022-03-14T20:21:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T20:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=2666"},"modified":"2022-03-14T20:21:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T20:21:31","slug":"troy-university-fraternities-and-sororities-use-cardboard-and-duct-tape-to-build-working-boats-for-greek-week-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2022\/03\/14\/troy-university-fraternities-and-sororities-use-cardboard-and-duct-tape-to-build-working-boats-for-greek-week-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy University fraternities and sororities use cardboard and duct tape to build working boats for Greek Week competition."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you had to get across a pond with only cardboard and duct tape at your disposal could you do it? That was the challenge presented to <a href=\"http:\/\/troy.edu\">Troy University<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/student-life-resources\/groups-organizations\/greek-life\/\">fraternities and sororities <\/a>Tuesday afternoon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the annual Greek Week Build a Boat competition, teams were given only cardboard, duct tape and their imaginations to build a boat that would float across the lake with two team members inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We let them build a boat and basically put two participants in the boat and basically sail off,&#8221; says Greek Week Committee Member Kobe Hampton. &#8220;The idea of this event is to cross and if you do make it to the other side then we&#8217;ll go off by time but it&#8217;s really just you know for fun and games. A lot of people love this event.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the full story watch Belle&#8217;s report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you had to get across a pond with only cardboard and duct tape at your disposal could you do it? That was the challenge presented to Troy University fraternities and sororities Tuesday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>At the annual Greek Week Build a Boat competition, teams were given only cardboard, duct tape and their imaginations to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2022\/03\/14\/troy-university-fraternities-and-sororities-use-cardboard-and-duct-tape-to-build-working-boats-for-greek-week-competition\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":2673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[625,895,432,896],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-2666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-belle-johnson","tag-build-a-boat","tag-greek-week","tag-kobe-hampton"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2666"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=2666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}