**FIRST EMAIL**/Going Green at the FIRST Robotics Conference in Atlanta

[Eric O]

That is interesting, but sounds logistically intense. I see the fundraising coming from the other side of the business. Why not connect with those doing the auditing, and have them recommend the people/businesses they audited buy light bulbs, etc from your team. So, you would go around promoting the audit and then get the $$ on the sales side. If the electric company is going to do the audit work for free why would the team do it?

I had the general idea when buying light bulbs for $1 because they were subsidized. I am sure someone would buy the energy efficient bulbs for $2. Sending the kids door to door with information about being energy efficient and then selling the bulbs would be an easy sell.

I have not had a chance to investigate the feasibility or legality of either of these ideas, but I thought I would share.

-Eric

[Kim Masi]

Right now the program is in beta-test mode, and there are a handful of teams (ourselves included) who promised to perform these energy audits and give feedback to FIRST by the fall. Does anyone out there know of any other teams in the northeast that are participating? Steve Cremer told me there were a bunch, but didn't give me specifics. Our team is looking for more ideas to share and collaborate with, so if you are interested, please let me know.

Right now our team is trying to get in contact with companies who might be interested in the audits. If we can't actually turn this into a fund raising opportunity, then we will still be audition our schools (High schools and Northeastern) to teach kids and the community about the importance of saving energy.