<div dir="ltr">Thank you for sharing this! We can use help from individual donors as well as firms.<div><br></div><div>I am the coach of FLL #447 - Knights In Rusting Armour. <span style="font-size:12.8px"> This year has been fantastic! The team has not only learned a lot of great robotic skills, they designed a snake catcher, and have helped many other teams as well. They were so excited when they won the 1st place Champions Award at the NC State Competition. This qualified the team to go to the World Championship. (This year it is in Houston in April.)</span><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"> However, we need your help. The cost for the team to go is $8,000. We have had great response so far, but aren't there quite yet.... Would you be willing to donate $10 or $20 (or even more?) <span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:12.8px">(If you are interested in sponsoring as a business or at a higher level, for $500 we'll list you as a sponsor and put you on the t-shirt!!)</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"> Giving sooner lets us focus on competing well at World's rather than having our time and attention split between preparing and fundraising. <span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"> To donate or for more information, go to <a href="http://fll447.org/" target="_blank">http://fll447.org</a></div></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px">As a reward for reading this far, here is a short robot <span class="gmail-m_875190269059451994gmail-il">video</span>:</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://alansmith.smugmug.com/Groups/FLL-2016-2017/i-JWd99zr/A" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">https://alansmith.smugmug.com/<wbr>Groups/FLL-2016-2017/i-JWd99zr<wbr>/A</a><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">(and another one to give a different idea - this is before the mission was sped up)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://alansmith.smugmug.com/Groups/FLL-2016-2017/i-JvJwBcG/A" target="_blank">https://alansmith.smugmug.com/<wbr>Groups/FLL-2016-2017/i-JvJwBcG<wbr>/A</a></div></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for considering,</div><div><br></div><div>Alan Smith</div><div>Coach FLL #447, Knights in Rusting Armour</div><div><br></div><div>(required legalese)</div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><em style="color:rgb(141,36,36)"><strong></strong></em></font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Team #447, Knights in Rusting Armour is a part of The Forge Initiative. </font><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The Forge Initiative is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and your gift </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">may qualify as a charitable deduction for federal income tax purposes. </span></font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Financial information about this organization and a copy of its license are available from the State Solicitation Licensing <wbr>Branch at <a href="tel:(888)%20830-4989" value="+18888304989" target="_blank">888-830-4989</a> or <a href="tel:(919)%20807-2214" value="+19198072214" target="_blank">919-807-2214</a> for NC Residents </font><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 9:57 PM, Mahesh Balasubramaniam via TriEmbed <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org" target="_blank">triembed@triembed.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">Just fyi, the team is
still looking. Its a good opportunity for a couple of local corporate
sponsors.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black">On Friday, February 24,
2017 10:01 PM, Mahesh Balasubramaniam <<a href="mailto:maheshba@ymail.com" target="_blank">maheshba@ymail.com</a>>
wrote:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">Friends,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">This forwarded email is
just fyi. Dr. Wong's kid has won regional and state Lego based robotic
competition and trying to get sponsorship for "World" level
competition at Texas to be held in April. It appears IEEE directly cannot
help for individual cause. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">If you know any of your
corporate firm that would like to sponsor for this team, please contact Dr.
Wong directly. Per the link below, they are just short of their goal.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">Thanks,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">Mahesh<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">Mahesh Balasubramaniam<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">IEEE ECNS RA24 Chair<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:mbalasu@ncsu.edu" target="_blank">mbalasu@ncsu.edu</a><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black"><a href="tel:(919)%20649-6902" target="_blank">919-649-6902</a><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b>From:</b> David Wong [mailto:<a href="mailto:wong.david-c@epa.gov" target="_blank">wong.david-c@epa.gov</a>] <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 21, 2017 2:34 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:g.randall@ieee.org" target="_blank">g.randall@ieee.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> potential sponsorship<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black"> <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">Hi Mr. Randall,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black"> I am an
IEEE Computer Society Affiliate (40173241). My son's team has won the Regional
and State First Lego League Robotic Competition. They are going the World
Competition in Houston, TX in April. The team is doing fund raising now. I
wonder IEEE can provide some monetary sponsorship. Please find the team
information here: </span><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="http://knightsinrustingarmour.weebly.com/" target="_blank">http://<wbr>knightsinrustingarmour.weebly.<wbr>com/</a></span></u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black"> Your support is greatly appreciated.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">Cheers,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">David<span></span></span></p>
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Computational Exposure Division<br>
National Exposure Research Laboratory<br>
US Environmental Protection Agency<br>
Mail Drop E243-03<br>
109 T. W. Alexander Dr.<br>
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