{"id":1553,"date":"2018-11-25T10:10:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T15:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.med.virginia.edu\/mindfulness\/?p=1553"},"modified":"2019-02-28T09:43:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T14:43:44","slug":"robotics-team-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.med.virginia.edu\/mindfulness\/2018\/11\/25\/robotics-team-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Robotics Team Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Recently, the Mindfulness Center was visited by a Richmond-area girls\u2019 middle school robotics team.\u00a0 They were preparing for a competition in which they would have to build a robot from Legos and also describe a way to improve the performance of astronauts engaged in prolonged interplanetary travel such as a mission to Mars.\u00a0 They had researched potential interventions, and decided that mindfulness could be very helpful on such missions and wanted to meet to learn more about how they might develop a mindfulness program for astronauts.\u00a0 They had contacted NASA and learned that no one is teaching mindfulness to astronauts now. The team asked to meet in person, so they traveled to Charlottesville after school one day.\u00a0 The girls came prepared with an impressive list of questions and spent almost two hours learning more about mindfulness, including doing some meditation themselves.\u00a0\u00a0 They especially liked the STOP practice (this stands for <strong>S<\/strong>top, <strong>T<\/strong>ake a few breaths, <strong>O<\/strong>bserve\u00a0your present moment experience with kindness and <strong>P<\/strong>roceed with awareness).\u00a0 As one of the students wrote afterwards \u201cThank you so much for meeting with us! It was so helpful! STOP was so cool!\u201d \u00a0The team placed second in their first competition, and will be competing for the championship next month.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, the Mindfulness Center was visited by a Richmond-area girls\u2019 middle school robotics team.\u00a0 They were preparing for a competition in which they would have to build a robot from Legos and also describe a way to improve the performance of astronauts engaged in prolonged interplanetary travel such as a mission to Mars.\u00a0 They had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-updates"],"acf":false,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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