{"id":7259,"date":"2019-02-10T14:00:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T22:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about-hmc\/?p=7259"},"modified":"2019-04-04T09:49:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T16:49:01","slug":"harvey-mudd-hosts-cube-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/2019\/02\/10\/harvey-mudd-hosts-cube-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Mudd Hosts Cube Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[hmc-video video_id=&#8221;rdIObxL8vBY&#8221; title=&#8221;Cube Competition at Harvey Mudd College&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Adam Walker \u201922\u00a0and the Office of Community Engagement organized a\u00a0World Cube Association\u00a0competition on campus Feb. 2. Harvey Mudd students Delaney Cohn \u201922,\u00a0Eric Brandon Chavez \u201922,\u00a0Jason Chen \u201922,\u00a0Kyra Clark \u201922,\u00a0Ryan Martinez \u201922,\u00a0Shanni Lam \u201922,\u00a0Sidney Cozier \u201920\u00a0and Jacky Lee \u201920\u00a0joined the competition, which drew more than 100 cubers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7260\" style=\"width: 990px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7260\" class=\"wp-image-7260\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/students-cubes.jpg\" alt=\"students working on cubes\" width=\"980\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/students-cubes.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/students-cubes-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/students-cubes-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/students-cubes-1024x512.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adam Walker \u201922, Shanni Lam &#8217;22 and Jason Chen &#8217;22 at the World Cube Association competition<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cMy motivation for cubing is the community,\u201d says Walker, who has been solving cube puzzles since he was 10. Walker placed in the top 10 in several events, including coming in sixth in the 3x3x3 with a time of 8.91 seconds. \u201cI really want to organize more competitions at Mudd,\u201d he says. \u201cAll of my friends were saying what a great venue it was. This is one of the reasons why I chose Mudd\u2014I can do stuff like this and people think it\u2019s cool. It\u2019s so great to have such a supportive community.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7264\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7264\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7264\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/student-wca.jpg\" alt=\"student with cube\" width=\"1000\" height=\"756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/student-wca.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/student-wca-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/student-wca-768x581.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Delaney Cohn &#8217;22 solves a cube at the WCA event<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_7266\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7266\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/student-2-cube.jpg\" alt=\"student with cube\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/student-2-cube.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/student-2-cube-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/student-2-cube-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan Martinez &#8217;22 works a cube<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[hmc-video video_id=&#8221;rdIObxL8vBY&#8221; title=&#8221;Cube Competition at Harvey Mudd College&#8221;] Adam Walker \u201922\u00a0and the Office of Community Engagement organized a\u00a0World Cube Association\u00a0competition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,30,217],"class_list":["post-7259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-engagement","category-students","category-unlisted"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}