[craigcd]

All right folks you want to help we need your help. The four New Orleans schools will not be competing this year. I have been trying to get five north schools to enlist. The problem is that Hurricane Katrina has devastated all of the local funding available to the new schools. The schools will not be able to do their own fund raising due to a school board order and a lot of the local business have also been damaged and cannot afford to give support. The school systems do not have any funds available to give to the program. Louisiana Space Grant Consortium has funding to give to five rookie schools in the amount of $10,000 each. This will just about cover the building of the robot but will not cover the cost of the travel and expenses for the regional competition. We need some way to raise at least $25,000 to get all five schools to the competition. I looking for ideas.