Yap Micronesia Robotics Team
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Micronesia's famously traditional Island of Stone Money is sending top students to a high tech global robotics competition. They need your help!
The FIRST Global Challenge is a worldwide robotics competition. Small student teams design, build, and compete complex robots from simple parts. Featuring teams from across the planet, it also serves as a forum for students to meet and partner with diverse international peers.
Students in Yap –a remote Micronesian Island most famous for its Stone Money– established their own Robotics League in 2011, holding Micronesia’s first public exhibition in summer of 2012. Funded by US nonprofit Habele , the Yap Robo League remains the only coordinated multi-year robotics program in the Central or Western Pacific.
The all-star team headed to the FIRST Global Challenge is comprised of three high school seniors from Yap Catholic High School, winners of the 2016 Habele Robo League Championship. They will spend nearly a week in the US Capital, participating in a lavish international opening ceremony, a series of robotics exhibitions, competitions, and eliminations, as well as tours and team building exercises with students from around the world.
$16,000 is needed to equip, train, and send three top Robotics students and one sponsor from Yap, Micronesia to the Global First Challenge. Half the money is needed just for the 8,409 miles of air travel!
Founded by former Peace Corps Volunteers, and recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)3 nonprofit, Habele is commited to supporting these ambitious students on their incredible journey. That can only happen with your investment!
Please donate right now. Kammagar, Hosachigchig and Thank you!
The FIRST Global Challenge is a worldwide robotics competition. Small student teams design, build, and compete complex robots from simple parts. Featuring teams from across the planet, it also serves as a forum for students to meet and partner with diverse international peers.
Students in Yap –a remote Micronesian Island most famous for its Stone Money– established their own Robotics League in 2011, holding Micronesia’s first public exhibition in summer of 2012. Funded by US nonprofit Habele , the Yap Robo League remains the only coordinated multi-year robotics program in the Central or Western Pacific.
The all-star team headed to the FIRST Global Challenge is comprised of three high school seniors from Yap Catholic High School, winners of the 2016 Habele Robo League Championship. They will spend nearly a week in the US Capital, participating in a lavish international opening ceremony, a series of robotics exhibitions, competitions, and eliminations, as well as tours and team building exercises with students from around the world.
$16,000 is needed to equip, train, and send three top Robotics students and one sponsor from Yap, Micronesia to the Global First Challenge. Half the money is needed just for the 8,409 miles of air travel!
Founded by former Peace Corps Volunteers, and recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)3 nonprofit, Habele is commited to supporting these ambitious students on their incredible journey. That can only happen with your investment!
Please donate right now. Kammagar, Hosachigchig and Thank you!
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Habele Fund
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