5027 Gofundme success

[Tina Nguyen]

Hi, I'm the captain of 5027! Thank you so much for all the kind words and support!

We were afraid we wouldn't be able to raise the money needed to go to Champs, so you can imagine we were quite ecstatic about going over our goal.

We got most of that money after the article came out in the Mercury News but we also got on ABC7:

http://abc7news.com/education/andrew...onship/657632/

[chrpham]

Just want to iterate what's been said: reach out to everyone you know, post it on social media and stuff - if you've seen some of the donation comments you'll see a lot of them are alumni "paying it forward" so while yes, the Mercury News article brought a lot of attention, it's the community around our school that helped us reach our goal. Don't be afraid to ask for help!

The Cinderella team thanks you and we'll see you at the ball.

[silver505]

Wow, great job! I'm glad your team will be able to make it to championships!

[Ubiquity]

Thanks everyone. It really helps when you have 254 and 1678 pick you as their partner, and then have their engineers cheesecake you. It also helps to have a great mentor team like Dark Matter lend us their shop. Other teams including Barn 2 Robotics and the Warrior Borgs among many others helped us out too.

While I am proud of our team, I am thankful do everyone who helped us out along the way. I used to work with Mark Leon, who was very close to the Cheesy Poofs. One time after they has won yet another regional, I said, "You must be very proud of your team." He replied, "They are all my teams, and I am proud of all of them." We hope to see you all at Champs - last I heard we will be on Newton.

[Citrus Dad]

You're in Newton with us! Please come by and we'll do everything we can to support you in your run at Newton.

We posted the MercNews article on our Facebook page. Hope that it helped.

[tomasuciu]

I guess we're pretty successful with our gofundme - nearly $11,000 raised.

http://www.gofundme.com/robotigers

[Trying to Help]

I'm really glad to hear of your success! And *thank you* for posting about the ways you reached out to your community. We're not yet going to Saint Louis but we're hoping we're on the way to the New England District Championships. And we're in mad fundraising mode.

I never thought that I'd be spending the evening reading marketing docs but FIRST gives everyone a chance to learn something new!

Brighid