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FIRST Robotics Competition Team Help

I am a mentor for Team 6332: Bull City Botics, a high school robotics team, part of FIRST Robotics Competition. Over the past six months, I have had the privilege of assisting a highly talented group of students at Riverside High School begin their journey through FIRST Robotics. Our team needs your support to help us attend the state championship, which we have qualified for.

We truly could not do this without the help of the community. Because of your generous donations, we now have awesome tools (thank you Resnick family, American Underground, Adam Dickinson, and Kontek); we have quality robot parts because of a generous local manufacturer (Mertek, who you should hit up if you need high-quality custom machines); we have reliable materials with which to build (thanks to the Holtz, Lamar, Treeger, Fullenkamp, Zauscher, Aguilar, Quizley, and Blankenship families); and we have had more than enough food for every single meeting and competition.

You all make this possible. Our students have learned so much – bystander intervention, industrial design, optical recognition and control systems programming, networking, professional communication, web design, teamwork, and leadership – and they've received countless compliments on their positive attitude, sense of humor, generosity toward other teams (even as a first-year team), safety ethic, and professionalism. The growth of students goes far beyond their technical skills, they’ve also developed as leaders and thinkers. Your support has helped us create something very special.

In addition to just being a rad team, we're pretty darn competitive. We have a beefy drivetrain that pulls ~1440W of power in a pushing match, a strategy that is well thought-out and effective, and level-headed students to make it all happen. Which shows in that we have been invited to the State Championship at Campbell University.

I am so excited for our team, but we have work. By Tuesday (yes, 3/28), we need to raise $4,000 to pay for our registration fees. Please help us through this issue – networking contacts, fundraising tips, and donations are all extremely appreciated. These students have far exceeded their expectations, and I want them to be able to see this through to its fullest extent.

To contact our networking team, please email [email protected]. To make a donation, you may message me back for information about sending a check, or you can make a donation online here: https://riverside-high-nc.ed.co/bull-city-botics-frc-team-6332

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“Well,” Rattrap said eventually, “if I was trying, you’d be reading my obit. Guess I just wanted some attention.” “Wha—“ Cheetor restarted his vocalizer, “what in the spotted heck did you go and do that for?” “What? Pass up on a stomach pump and the chance to get fondled by some pretty mecha done up in nurse’s paint?” He was being crude on purpose. It would have worked on Cheetor a year ago, but he’d spend the last solar cycle running drops to Cybertron’s lunar ports. Rattrap was high society gossip in comparison. Instead of flushing, he just waited. Rattrap finished his cube and rummaged in the cabinet until he found another. He said over his shoulder. “You know what day it is?” “Um,” Cheetor checked his internal chronometer, “third cycle?” “Funny.” And then he clamped up. When Rattrap didn’t want to talk, he wasn’t going to talk. Maybe Rhinox could get him to do it, but Rhinox could get anyone to do anything. He’d been on as Optimus’ first mate, but Cheetor actually suspected he was there to supply stern glares and a voice of reason.