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We raised the money in a variety of ways.

Childrens Hospital has a tradition of selling little, lapel sized, Daisies for a dollar. We sold them in our school to teachers and students. We also stood outside of a local Mall with our robot and collected donations. And finally we buy some Daisies to hand out at competitions.
We don't want to solicit donations at regionals, so we just buy them and use them as giveaways. You may already have one of our daisies if you went to Philly, Chesapeake, or Atlanta. All together that totalled $800.

We also visit kids and their families in the hospital and let them drive our machines. One little known fact is that there are many bored siblings in Children's Hospital sitting with their ill brother or sister, so we usually get a nice crowd.

Besides the obvious Daisy theme connection, we also have several people on our team that have deep ties to Children's Hospital. They have been particularly good to my family and I love that we can help them. its nice when you can use FIRST to give back to deserving people.

I'll try to find a C.H.O.P. daisy picture and post it.

Thanks for your interest.

Al Ostrow