{"id":26991,"date":"2019-03-12T14:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=26991"},"modified":"2019-03-12T12:11:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:11:33","slug":"apsu-qualifies-for-collegiate-drone-racing-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2019\/03\/12\/apsu-qualifies-for-collegiate-drone-racing-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU qualifies for Collegiate Drone Racing Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Austin Peay State University (APSU)<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-324279\" title=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Austin-Peay-State-University-APSU.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" width=\"250\" height=\"64\"\/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; The Drone Club at Austin Peay has qualified for the Collegiate Drone Racing Association nationals \u2013 in the school\u2019s first season of competitive racing \u2013 next month at the University of North Dakota.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_446573\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Austin-Peay-qualifies-for-collegiate-drone-racing-nationals.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-446573\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-446573\" title=\"APSU Drone Club to compete in Collegiate Drone Racing Association Nationals.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Austin-Peay-qualifies-for-collegiate-drone-racing-nationals-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"APSU Drone Club to compete in Collegiate Drone Racing Association Nationals.\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-446573\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">APSU Drone Club to compete in Collegiate Drone Racing Association Nationals.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Austin Peay State University is one of only 14 universities that has qualified for the event. Other qualifying schools include Ohio State University, Purdue University and Virginia Tech.<\/p>\n<p>Only one other school in Tennessee, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, has qualified.<\/p>\n<p>The Drone Club\u2019s lead pilot, Michael Hunter, will represent Austin Peay at the national competition April 13th-14th, 2019 in Grand Forks, North Dakota.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Floss 3 Build and Maiden\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E4MALbNWsJU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hunter clocked in at just over 52 seconds on the February CDRA track, and that time qualified the team.<\/p>\n<p>[320left]Hunter had been trying to qualify since the season started in October. His 52-second race happened on the day before the deadline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing able to qualify for the first time ever, it was really hard to sleep that night because I waited until midnight just to see if anyone else submitted a better time,\u201d Hunter said. \u201cOnce that midnight clock hit and I knew I was in position to qualify, I was really happy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe next morning, I texted (Drone Club adviser) Doug (Catellier) and said, \u2018Hey, we made it!\u201d<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Austin Peay qualifies for collegiate drone racing nationals\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HP-OKC688y4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Peay State University (APSU) Clarksville, TN &#8211; The Drone Club at Austin Peay has qualified for the Collegiate Drone Racing Association nationals \u2013 in the school\u2019s first season of competitive racing \u2013 next month at the University of North Dakota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,32255,262,512,825,32603,2648,33309,32606,7996,2584,33308,33307,25928],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-71l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26992,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26991\/revisions\/26992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}