{"id":17758,"date":"2020-03-26T20:42:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T12:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/xplores-xcraft-space-probe-lands-in-xtronaut-2-0-board-game-and-stem-students-are-the-winners\/"},"modified":"2020-03-26T20:42:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T12:42:57","slug":"xplores-xcraft-space-probe-lands-in-xtronaut-2-0-board-game-and-stem-students-are-the-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/xplores-xcraft-space-probe-lands-in-xtronaut-2-0-board-game-and-stem-students-are-the-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Xplore\u2019s Xcraft space probe lands in Xtronaut 2.0 board game \u2014 and STEM students are the winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_555305\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-555305\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-555305\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/200326-xtronaut-630x346.jpg\" alt=\"Xtronaut 2.0 cards\" width=\"630\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/200326-xtronaut-630x346.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/200326-xtronaut-1260x691.jpg 1260w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/200326-xtronaut-768x421.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/200326-xtronaut.jpg 1360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-555305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Xplore\u2019s Xcraft space probe is featured on the Xtronaut 2.0 card at far right. (Xplore \/ Xtronaut Illustration)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Seattle-based Xplore isn\u2019t due to launch its first Xcraft space probe until late 2021, but it\u2019s already landed in an educational board game.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Xtronaut 2.0, a multiplayer game devised by planetary scientist Dante Lauretta and Xtronaut Enterprises CEO Michael Lyon, will feature Xcraft as one of the deck\u2019s playing cards. Players can combine the cards to create their own game-board missions to deep space.<\/li>\n<li>The arrangement is part of a sponsorship deal for Xtronaut 2.0\u2019s Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign. \u201cWe are proud to have the Xcraft featured in Xtronaut 2.0, and are delighted that our sponsorship enables us to give 120 games to the youth organization of our choice,\u201d Xplore co-founder and chief operating officer Lisa Rich said today in a news release.<\/li>\n<li>Those games will go to students at the Museum of Flight\u2019s Boeing Academy for STEM Learning. Reba Gilman, the museum\u2019s vice president of education, said she was \u201cthankful Xplore is giving us this positive stay-at-home activity that students will enjoy during these uncertain times.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xplore\u2019s Xcraft space probe is featured on the Xtronaut 2.0 card at far right. (Xplore \/ Xtronaut Illustration) Seattle-based Xplore isn\u2019t due to launch its first Xcraft space probe until late 2021, but it\u2019s already landed in an educational board game. Xtronaut 2.0, a multiplayer game devised by planetary scientist Dante Lauretta and Xtronaut Enterprises [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4843,4844,4588,4426,4845],"class_list":["post-17758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-board-games","tag-games","tag-xcraft","tag-xplore","tag-xtronaut"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}