Support Team Haiti's Journey to FIRST Global 2024

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Dylan Ramirez and 3 others are organizing this fundraiser to benefit Educare Now.

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What is First Global Challenge?

The FIRST Global Challenge (FGC) aims to empower high-school students around the world to collectively tackle the world's most pressing challenges. To do this they bring together teams from 190+ countries to engage in an Olympic-style robotics competition. This year’s challenge will be located in Athens, Greece on Sept. 26-29th themed "Feeding the Future," emphasizing collaborative solutions to global food challenges through STEM innovation.

Source: FIRST Global Media

Educare Haiti’s robotics team has been chosen for the second year in a row to represent Haiti in this year's Global competition. You can read more about our journey to last year’s competition here: Innovators Amid Adversity Haitian Youth Spark Nat

Who is Team Haiti?

We are a group of students from five different schools in La Vallée de Jacmel, Haiti brought together through Educare Haiti. Introduced to robotics in 2021, we became the national FIRST Lego League team champions in 2022. Our international journey began at FGC 2023 in Singapore, and this year, with three girls and two boys on our core travel team, we are excited to return to FIRST Global and demonstrate our capabilities.

How Funds Will Be Used

Thanks to our early supporters our pre-travel expenses have been covered and we made it to Athens. We still have many outstanding expenses and need your help. Below is is an outline of our expenses:

The Impact of Your Donation

A donation to Team Haiti profoundly impacts our community. Despite the challenges of the ongoing Haitian crisis, we do what we can with what we have, no excuses! We are excited to demonstrate to the world all the enthusiasm, potential, and creativity that we have poured into this project.

There are many ways to support us. If you can't contribute financially right now, please consider sharing this campaign with your network to help us reach a wider audience.

Thank you to all the donors for their generosity and support in getting us this far. We promise to send updates on our journey to FGC2024 in Greece.

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