TEAM HYPER needs your help

[CMC]

Hello everone Team HYPER needs your help!

We have won the UTC regional and we would like to go to Florida but we cant as of yet! Our school committe will not let us go!

Currently we are writting letters, and signing petitions! If you would like to help us get to florida we hope that you would write letters to hypermeet@hotmail.com explaining why we sould go!

If you can help us it would be great!!!!!

Thank you for your time!

Chris Chernicki
Student Driver/Leader

[Jgreenwd1]

what are they saying for the reason not to let you go?

[Rich Kressly]

We are doing everything we can at team 103 to help you. Our principal and school board are also going to do their part to help you get to florida.

[CMC]

They are saying that it is a safety issue!

They wont even let us go with just our parents!

The main reason is because they have said no to 8 other organizations already this year!

They are changing the no travel ruling on MAY 1st which is 6 days after we will leave for the comp!

Chris

[Jgreenwd1]

They wont let you go because of what happion on sept 11 which is dumb.
There takeing your chance to win away from you.
I will help you with what ever you need.

[CMC]

we need letters and signatures!!!!

Please help

[Jgreenwd1]

ok you got it.

[Jason Haaga]

Our school board was doing the same thing and only recently changed their minds. Basically worse comes to worse you all call in sick for a few days...

[PaPPy]

Hi All,

This is Pappy's, Pit Crew Team 69 (Brian's) mom.

I have a problem when anyone infringes upon my parental rights. I know since 9/11 it's a safety issue, but these kids won a fantastic opportunity to represent their team, their school, their sponsor and their community with their robot. I didn't have a problem with putting my daughter on a plane 2 weeks at 9/11 and I don't have a problem putting my son on a plane to Florida today, tomorrow or next week. I don't need or appreciate anyone else telling me they will not let my son go. These kids strived for this regional championship and deserve the right to defend their title in Florida at a national competition. President Bush has always encouraged us to get on with our lives. These kids earned their way into nationals and they deserve to go. So let them go! The latest news flash!!!! All the kids need Quincy Public Schools to do is let them touch the robot! They can get down there, they can be at the competition but they really need permission to be able to touch and operate their robot!!! Thanks for listening......

[Ian W.]

just let the kids go. my school board was reluctant at first, but then said to hell with it, the kdis want to have fun, so they let some other school functions fly to florida, so now we are. there's no reason not to fly. if the kids' parents say no, well, sucks for that kid. if the kids parents say, GO TO FLORIDA AND GET OUT OF THE HOUSE FOR A WEEK!, well, the school should let them go .

[Digo]

My team will take VERY FEW people to Florida because of LACK OF MONEY. that's really sad! We will only have the driver, the guy who fixes the robot, and a few more people. Our team has about 30 people in the total... that's really sad!

And as I can see, your team has the money needed, and the skills and the will. That's really bad that they don't want to let you go for a "safety reason" like that. By the way, plane is much more safety than bus or car.

Going to the nationals is a very safety thing to your futures, your careers, your lifes.

I'll write an e-mail to them.

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Rodrigo Ribeiro
#383 - The Brazilian Machine

[CMC]

We tried that they wont even let use take control of the robot!

Ie: we can go in watch for the $10,000 reg fee, but we cant touch the robot


We will be on Fox 25 news at 10 oclock tonight and we were also in a front page article in the Patriot Ledger (a major paper)

We are trying everything!!!!!

I have even met with the MAYOR,

We need your thoughts to help us !

Even if we dont get down there we are still proud of our team and our accomplisments!!

Thanks for your support

CHRIS

[Ian W.]

give us an email address, we'll email and get them t olet you go.

Hey guys, it's me, Becky from 121........ look, you guys are having problems with your school board, we are having problems with money, but we are all going to make it down there, we have to!
Anyway our teachers at our school went on strike this year so we couldnt have any real teachers participate because its an extra curricular activity...... a woman from our school board stepped in to fill that role and she has become very involved with our team...... i contacted her about your problem and she may be able to help (one school board person to another, you know), we just need a phone number of whoever is in charge of your team
e-mail me

Becky

[PaPPy]

Today a lot of things went on. It was found out anyone willing to go can go down with parents, our sponsor does not want to go with out permission from the superintendent. So we need to raise 4,000 dollars (just the entry fee) before Sunday. We can stay some place outside of Disney and pay FIRST the $75 dollars per person. Plan B is convince the superintendet to let us go and then we have teachers and our sponsor willing to let us go. We are willing to go take out a loan. Some people on our team our quitting now and saying, "It't dead in the water", it's not until Sunday. We have 1,000 people that we got signatures from, and most said we will support you in anyway. Some random person at we got to sign a petition said if we get a bus he will drive us all down there. So people are willing to do anything. And we may be a little too HYPER but we have to stick up to our name and not give up. And wont until Sunday.

So just wanted to keep you all updated.
And Hope to see you in nationals

<~-PaPPy-~>