Howdy y’all!
After a week of waiting, I am proud to announce that our #TransYouthFIRST and our #PNWPride badge ribbons have landed in Houston!
These ribbons are available in limited quantities for all students, mentors, volunteers, and spectators at the event. For the #PNWPride ribbons, they will be at team 1540, the Flaming Chickens, pit and with other alumni of PNW teams running around the event. The #TransYouthFIRST can be picked up from the pits of 3636, 2046, 2714, 1540, 2412, 5414, 1678, and 1339, with any additional teams and locations being added to comments on this post. There will also be ribbons available at the FUN/FRC discord event. For volunteers, there are ribbons with other volunteers on all fields. For those in FTC, there are also packs of the ribbons floating around, so feel free to ask anyone who has the ribbon, where they may have gotten them. Over the course of the event, everyone will do their best to keep teams stocked up and to make sure everyone who wants a ribbon, is able to get one. If your team is interested in helping out, please let us know so we can be in contact further.
If you are interested, we still do need help hitting our full donation goal for funding this ribbons, over at: https://www.gofundme.com/f/put-trans-youth-first-at-first-championship-2023 . Any extra funds will be donated to Equality Texas, an organization fighting for LGBTQIA+ rights in the state of Texas. We also have a website available, at #transyouthFIRST . I’d like to give a huge thanks to everyone involved, from volunteers and teams on the ground handing out ribbons, to those who simply are helping share the message. It takes a village, and I know nobody could have ever done this alone. Stay safe at champs everyone, and remember to have fun!