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Posted by Brian .

Student on team #56, Robbe Xtreme, from Bound Brook High School and Ethicon Inc..

Posted on 8/2/2000 9:51 PM MST


In Reply to: Is the Chairman's Award fixed? I believe so..... posted by Vinny Bushemi on 8/2/2000 2:47 PM MST:



Anyone who reads this,

Bare with me this is gonna be a a long one...

I come from a team that isn't financially fixed. This past fall our town was hit by a tropical storm (tropical storm Floyd), we also thank the teams who helped us fund raise extra money for the families who suffered in our town. Our team not only fundraised to get us to 2 regionals and the nationals, got ourselves great giveaways 2 different shirts fitted embroidered hats for everyone. We also submitted a chairmans award, but we were possibly over looked, for what reason i have no clue, but we reached out to our community to families who needed extra financial support. Granted we couldnt help all families we helped all we could. Our submittion possibly could have been over looked.

Anyway the purpose of this was to state that our company gives some financial support, but what our team mandates is that everyone on the team needed to raise a minimum of $450 a person to go to all competitions and the nationals. (the minimum changes each year depending on how much airline hotel and bus costs amount to) Some people on our team as did I reached 3-4 thousand dollars this year. Which helped send our team through regionals and the families in our community.

We have a somewhat supportive community, but as our team is trying to fund raise year round as i am trying now. We wrote to major corporations asking for money many of which have turned us down, but we still have tried.

In conclusion our team tries year round to include our community in our FIRST program and also tries to help community members.

Anyway the teams who have won and who still will win the chairmans award are deserving of the prestigous Chairman's award are definetly deserving and i applaude them.

Brian team 56

P.S. Congrats to Baxter Bomb Squad on winning this years chairmans award. You guys are definetly deserving.