So, You're Writing a Blog Post

By Ethan

Frontmatter

layout: Do not touch.
title: Title of your article (you can't use hyphens or colons.) tags: Enter as comma seperated list, case insensitive. Try to use one award and one normal tag

• Tips - tips and tricks for other teams.
• Journal - working on the journal, blog, and posts like this one.
• Outreach - volunteering and special events. Ex. Moonday, NSTA
• Mechanical - work on the robot, parts, building, ect.
• Software - programming.
• Business - grants, funding, ect.
• Organization - organizing, cleaning physical things.
• Video - if you have a video, nothing else.
• Private - will NOT show up on the blog page
• Pinned - pins post as first on the homepage until the tag is removed.
• Inspire - (award) all around good posts, important things for judges like NSTA, or a post going over our robot in detail
• Connect - business award
• Innovate - design process and uniqueness award
• Design - award about how well documented and designed your robot is
• Motivate - recruitment, representing STEM/FIRST
• Control - coding award

section: Choose team, engineering, or business.
personhours: Calculate using # of people * hours worked. One number.
rolecall: People who participated in the post, comma seperated. Author of post goes first.

REMEMBER: keep the space between the colon and the information, and dont touch the "---"s.

Rules

Task: Used for succinctly describing what you did
Body of Post: Describe what you did, how you did, ect..
Reflections: Used to say how something worked out, your creative process, expectations, ect.
Images: Must be 600px wide. Use as many as you'd like. Save in images.
Videos: Use the default YouTube embed.
Embedded Insta/Twitter Posts: DON'T put in the first paragraph. You will break the blog.
Filenames: Save as YYYY-MM-DD-NAME.html in _posts. If unfinished, Draft-YYYY-MM-DD-NAME.html