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Re: Please help Wave Robotics earn $1,000!!!
I would like to shore Tyler's thanks to the CD community. Overall, I thought this was a fun and engaging (albeit repetitive) way of awarding a grant. I spent a lot of nights "feeding the pig" while on travel testing robots for my other (not FIRST) job. I chain emailed at least 50 people outside of CD and our team and they in turn passed the word on. At the very least, we cast our FIRST net further than we did before.
To address Tristan's comments: I am with Akash and Brandon so far as being confused by your logic and derisiveness toward this effort. Every year I personally put over $800 cash and easily 500-600 hours of my "leisure time" into Wave Robotics. All of our team members and sponsors donate their cash and energy to different degrees. Almost every fundraiser we have ever done would cost more than we would gain if we were to pay our volunteers even minimum wage. I know from talking to many other teams in the past, this is similar in their estimation. The coin donation effort was no different in this regard than every other effort every team has put into making their team more than just a collection of people.
So why do we do this year after year? Why did CD step up to the plate and help our singular team to get this grant? IMHO, we are all givers to the core. We take solace in the fact that what we are doing provides something, that if it didn't exist, would make our community a worse place.
This reply was not generated to continue an argument. It was generated to exemplify to the CD community how proud I am to be part of FIRST and CD. This entire organization was partially founded on creating something out of nothing and enabling people and eventually the greater society to be more responsible toward their fellow humans.
Again thanks to the CD community for helping in this effort. I encourage every team to go to their local Chamber of Commerce or community involvement center and see what is out there. I would love to see another one of these grant games on CD soon.
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