The Spring Mills High School Robotics Club Needs Your Help! http://smhsroboticsclub.weebly.com/ | [email protected]
Dear Sir or Madam, The Spring Mills High School Robotics Club is currently seeking your support to help us prepare for our 1st year of designing and building a robot to compete in the VEX challenge. Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation presents students with the task of designing and building a robot to play against other teams in a game-based engineering challenge in their VEX Robotics Competition. The REC Foundation seeks to increase student interest and involvement in STEM. Students are engaged in hands-on curriculum-based sustainable and affordable robotics engineering programs using science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. In addition to operating and supporting competitions for some of the world’s leading robotics platforms and organizations, including VEX, TSA, and BEST Robotics, the foundation also provides program support and workshops focused on technology and professional development for educators. The REC Foundation is a US-registered 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization. During the competition season our 10+ students work closely with teachers and volunteer professionals to conceptualize, design, build, program, modify and test a robot to participate in a competition game that changes each year.
Registering for the competition is expensive, and building a robot that can actually move when it reaches the competition floor is not easy. All teams are charged a $1,500 fee for the playing field and parts. Additional fees are charged for each regional event they plan to attend. So, it is with that reality that we are turning to the community and Leaders such as you to help us get the funding we need to make this year a success. With your assistance we can:
Build and compete with our 2018-2019 robot in the VEX regionals
Get the more students interested in science by bringing our robot to community functions
Recruit as many new team members as possible
We are asking for your support in whatever form you can offer. While we will gratefully accept any monetary donations, we are also seeking in-kind donations, such as machining/manufacturing services, donations of raw building materials or hardware components, and volunteer help from both engineering and non‐engineering mentors. If you are interested in assisting us, you can visit our web page for more information http://smhsroboticsclub.weebly.com/ or contact us at [email protected]. Thank you for considering this request. Our team is looking forward to another great season and we hope to have your support moving forward.
Sincerely, Jessica Emmons, Team Coach / Teacher Ryan Gross, Robotics Club Founding Student