Israeli team Orbit #1690 competing in NY regionals

[Tomker]

Hey all,

Now that it's official and we are registered to the Long Island regional, we would like to address the FIRST community and it's NY area specifically.

After last year's season we've decided that we would like to raise our team's competitiveness, and decided to overcome the geographical limitation and compete in more than 1 regional.
For reasons of convenience and competition dates that work together with the Israel regional we've decided to compete in the 5th and 6th week in NY State area. We are already registered for the Long Island regional and are hoping to register to the Chesapeake regional next month.

Now for the reason I'm writing this post. We are still trying to raise money to ease the traveling costs on the parents as much as possible. If anyone has any contact to companies or private people who could help us in any given way we'll really appreciate it – whether its public transport companies that can donate a bus/mini-buses, food companies or hotels/motels nearby that can ease up the costs of stay; and of course any financial contribution to the flights themselves.

In addition, we were considering the possibility of being hosted by local teams in the days surrounding each regional. That way we would not have to "waste" money on hotels in the competition days, and most importantly – the kids would get the chance to get to know other teams better and possibly gather some new friends and better socialize with local teams.

We would really appreciate any sort of help!
You are welcomed to contact me either here or in private messages or via my email:
tomkertesz10@gmail.com

Thanks in advance to everyone,
Tom Kertesz – team Orbit #1690