I came across something interesting today which I believe will be valuable to many FIRST teams and wanted to share it before the Championship, while CD activity is high. It is a potential fund raising opportunity.
A long-time FIRST volunteer is part of the leadership of a new company that has been in “stealth mode” for several months, and is planning to emerge around the 1st of May. He has asked me not to post details about the new company right now, but the interesting thing is their plan for a community support program. While there is no financial commitment required from teams, the program can function as an easy-to-use fund raising tool.
The company has put up a page where teams can express an interest in participating in their community support program. If your team might be interested, you can go to the link below and fill out the form so you will be notified when details about the new company become public. It just asks for an email address, contact name and a little about the team. And they will make the program a little more attractive for your team if you help other teams out by referring them as well.
The link to the interest form is:
http://69.163.34.40:3001/interested
This company has not publicly announced itself yet, so the page has no branding or identification now. But I have personally known this volunteer for several years – he wants to help FIRST teams.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)