{"id":27147,"date":"2019-04-16T05:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T10:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=27147"},"modified":"2019-04-16T02:04:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T07:04:38","slug":"austin-peay-state-university-student-finishes-22nd-overall-at-collegiate-drone-racing-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2019\/04\/16\/austin-peay-state-university-student-finishes-22nd-overall-at-collegiate-drone-racing-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Peay State University student finishes 22nd overall at 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; Michael Hunter, lead pilot for the Drone Club at Austin Peay State University (APSU), finished 22nd overall and sixth in his bracket at the Collegiate Drone Racing Association nationals \u2013 in the school\u2019s first season of competitive racing \u2013 Sunday, April 14th, 2019 at the University of North Dakota.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_449633\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/APSU-student-Michael-Hunter-finishes-22nd-overall-at-Collegiate-Drone-Racing-Nationals.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-449633\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-449633\" title=\"Austin Peay State University's Michael Hunter readies to compete at the Collegiate Drone Racing Association. (APSU)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/APSU-student-Michael-Hunter-finishes-22nd-overall-at-Collegiate-Drone-Racing-Nationals-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Peay State University's Michael Hunter readies to compete at the Collegiate Drone Racing Association. (APSU)\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-449633\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Austin Peay State University&#8217;s Michael Hunter readies to compete at the Collegiate Drone Racing Association. (APSU)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Thank you, GIS Center APSU, for getting me here,&#8221; he said on his Facebook page. &#8220;It was a blast!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to thank you all for your support while I was here at CDRA for nationals,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<h3>Michael Hunter ready for national championship<\/h3>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Monster Energy Course\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GZp0CNoxQVQ?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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[320center]<\/p>\n<h3>Michael Hunter builds the drone he&#8217;ll fly at nationals<\/h3>\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<h3>To Learn More<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>For more about the Collegiate Drone Racing Association, visit <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/collegiatedroneracingassociation.com\/\" >http:\/\/collegiatedroneracingassociation.com\/<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>For more about the Drone Club at Austin Peay, go to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DroneClubAtAPSU\/\" >https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DroneClubAtAPSU\/<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Peay State University (APSU) Clarksville, TN &#8211; Michael Hunter, lead pilot for the Drone Club at Austin Peay State University (APSU), finished 22nd overall and sixth in his bracket at the Collegiate Drone Racing Association nationals \u2013 in the school\u2019s first season of competitive racing \u2013 Sunday, April 14th, 2019 at the University of [&hellip;]<\/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":[23,32255,2638,262,512,825,32606,33307],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-73R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27147"}],"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=27147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27148,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27147\/revisions\/27148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}