Brazilian team #1860 Cephatron ask for help to reach St Louis

FIRST General Forum
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FIRST fellows,

This is our 10th year of existence and we are proud to participate every year in US both in regional and on the championship.

The trip Brazil/US requires a lot of money and a lot of time planning it.

Our last time on the nationals was in Atlanta 2009. Now, as Chairman´s Award winners in Hub City regional, we are very happy with the possibility to visit St Louis for the first time.

Every year we reach our needs through our sponsors. This year was not different, we went to two different regionals (we never did it). However, for the championship we were not prepared.
Unfortunately, Brazil is facing an economic crisis and the money we need is difficult to reach.

For the first time we are asking to the community to help us, and we start an online campaign to raise funds.
Our goal is to send only 6 (the minimum we need to compete) students.

We want to ask for your help too. It´s not the ideal situation but that the way we found to continue our successful work as a 10-year FIRST participant.

Here is a link for our campaign. We have some explaining text in English too.

http://www.kickante.com.br/campanhas/projeto-first-disseminando-ciencia-e-tecnologia

To help us, we ask for two different actions, please help as you can.

  1. Share with your community so more people can see and help
  2. Donate yourself
    To donate you need to click on the orange button “Quero Contribuir”, choose your amount. Put your payment information and it’s done.

We hope we can reach our goals

Thanks for all your support.
Hope to see you in St Louis

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Have you thought about doing a gofundme account? Team 4159 is doing that right now on chief Delphi.

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Thanks for the idea Logan,
I´ve checked here and our country is not supported by this site, so we are going to have problems to transfer the money.

The one we choose accepts international credit cards as well as paypal.
And we can transfer it to a Brazilian account.

due the time we have, it´s better not have problems with it

thanks again

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As our friend up here Logan ask (by the way, thanks for the suggestion) , we found someone with an American Account so we could use it

This is the link to the Go Fund Me campaign
https://www.gofundme.com/cephatron1860

We hope you can help us to visit St Louis and continue our great journey

Thanks again

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We are very happy that the registration fee was paid by one of our sponsors,

but we still need some help with the students travel.

We will be even happier if you can donate, or spread this link to help us

Thanks again

www.gofundme.com/cephatron1860