Help Danbury Robotics Team go to the World Championships

Our Kids Won! Let's send them to St. Louis for the World Championship!

CONGRATULATIONS to our own Danbury (LEGO) Robotics FTC (First Tech Challenge) Team; The League of Extrordinary Roboticists, Team 8699!

The Danbury LEGO Robotics FTC
team #8699, League of Extraordinary Robotocists,
have been selected to represent the State of Connecticut at the World Championship in St. Louis, MO. They will compete against 127 teams from
USA and 10 countries, this April 26 -- 29. This is the first time Danbury has received this honor.

We need your help to send them! It will cost $2000 for each participant to attend; our fundraising goal is $20,000

Please donate at https://www.gofundme.com/ler8699

Our mission is to change the face of robotics by
inspiring and engaging kids, females, minorities and others with
"different abilities" to get involved in Science Technology Engineering
Art and Math (STEAM) fields, in particular robotics.

Our mission evolved out of some of our personal experiences. For example,
some of our female team members were told that girls can't do robotics
and one of our African American team members was told that African
Americans don't participate in robotics, they play basketball and
football.

In order to change these stereotypes, our team agreed
to have at least one community outreach event every month and partner
with other community organizations for education and recruitment.

Our objective is to diversify our team and be living examples of diversity
and inclusion, in robotics while at the same time demonstrating how fun
robotics can be.

We hope that others see it as a sport like any other sport, except it's the sport of the mind, that anyone can participate in.

We are honored to have the opportunity to attend FIRST World Championships
and appreciate any assistance you can give us towards this wonderful
and exciting opportunity. We will certainly share our experiences with
others.

Thank you for your consideration!

Sincerely, Kay Bell, Media Specialist (7th grade)
The League of Extraordinary Roboticists, Team 8699

Visit their Website to learn more about the team: www.ler8699.org
Please consider helping FTC team 8699 get to the event by donating: https://www.gofundme.com/ler86...