Teams Affected by Hurricane Katrina

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Originally Posted by M. Krass

Refugees are currently being moved to the Astrodome, former home of FIRST's Championship event.

The pits from the Championship event in 2003 actually.


I think this is awesome that Houston is again opening their doors to a huge group of people for such a worthy cause...
Once in 2003 for us, and now in 2005 in another "neighboring" city's time of need.
Kudos to the great people from Houston who are making this possible.

Another idea I heard on the news was to give folks in the Hurricane devastated areas temporary housing on Cruise ships in the Gulf of Mexico.
Imagine how many people that could help, and how many people just one of those cruise ships can hold.

Also, if you are going into your senior year in college this year for any type of civil, or other related engineering fields, you may want to start looking on job boards for jobs in that area.
For example, on Monster.com I have seen jobs in FL, LA, and MI for civil engineering related jobs already, and I'm sure the cleanup for a storm of this magnitude will be a crash course in hands on learning for those in this field, and at least be available for another year or two.

Just something to keep in mind.

Engineers can really make a difference when people are in their time of need.