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Send Gabe to D.I. Global Competition

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Help send me to Destination Imagination Global Competition in Knoxville, Tennessee from May 21st - May 25th 2013. 

Hi. My name is Gabe and I'm from Deerfield. I am a nice kid. I work hard in school to get A's and B's on my report card. Sometimes it's not so easy because I have autism and fine motor issues, but I work my hardest everyday! I love Spiderman and Star Wars and can answer almost any trivia question about both. I am a Boy Scout, and last year I earned the highest Scout award, The Arrow of Light, that can be given to a Cub Scout. I also won 2nd place for selling popcorn, not an easy feat.
This school year I decided to join the Destination Imagination club at my school. I thought it would be fun to join a "creative problem solving" club and I knew that we would have competitions. First, my team and I went the Illinois Far North regional competition in March and won 1st place out of the entire region!!! This past weekend, we went to the state championship and my team won 1st place again in our division! We practiced after school for many hours to get this far.
This means that we get to go to the Global Championship next month in Tennessee to compete against 1,000 teams from around the world. I would love to join my team there but it is very expensive for my family. A parent has to accompany me and stay with me along with the rest of our Illinois teammates. These are the costs:
Flight $340 from Chicago to Louisville for both of us.
Registration/accommodations/meals $685 x 2 since my dad (or mom) has to stay with me.
Illinois Team T-shirt $10 x 2 since we have been told that parent and child MUST each buy a team shirt.
$60 for the pins to trade at the competition and also mail to donors of $50 .
The total is $1790. It's actually more than what I am asking for, but I am using all of my birthday money to cover $90.  My parents are covering any taxi and car rental costs as well as babysitters that will need to watch my sisters while one parent goes with me and the other parent stays and goes to work.
My parents would love to be able to pay for all of it and they tell me all the time  how proud they are of me and how much they believe in me.
I promise to do my best at the competition and post pictures for all of you. Thank you for being so nice and reading this and also donating if you can. I appreciate any amount that you can donate. 
If you can't donate, I understand, but can I ask a favor? Can you share my page as much as you can so that I can hopefully make it to the competition next month. Thank you.

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Violeta Flemenbaum
Organizer
Deerfield, IL

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