QV RoboTigers Championship Trip

$10,688 of $25k goal

Raised by 24 people in 22 months
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Queens Vocational & Technical High School's FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) Team 1796 earned 1st place at the US FIRST Robotics NYC Regional Competition at the Jacob Javits Center (March 13-March 15)!

Our 2015 Robot, Based-God Trap Love, ready to start the match. 

As the only NYC Career and Technical Education (CTE) school earning this place, comprised of dedicated former & current students as well as mentors, we are looking for donations to fund our trip to St. Louis, Missouri to compete at the FIRST Robotics World Championships (April 22-April 25).  There, we will compete with and against 599 of the best robots in the world.

Please help us fund our journey to the 2015 FIRST Championship to participate and hopefully earn a win!

The drivers and some of their fellow members.  

The team is an after-school program at a Title-I New York City Public School, Queens Vocational and Technical High School. This Career and Tech Ed school teaches students technical trade skills necessary to be successful in their future careers and post secondary endeavors.

The team is comprised of 28 multi-cultural students from all types of backgrounds who come together every year and spend 6 weeks building a robot together. Since past January, the students have logged more than 3,200 hours of work on the robot and preparing for the competitons.

Without our sponsors and without our mentors of the RoboTigers, we wouldn't have made it this far. Thank you sponsors! And thank you mentors!
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Posted by Nicole Zagada
21 months ago
UPDATE: 12 DAYS REMAIN UNTIL OUR DEPARTURE (AS OF 4/9/15)

In lieu of the recent campaign advancements, we would like to extend our warmest thanks to all the generous contributors who believe in our cause and continue to further our dream. As a team, we are grateful for the support we’ve received: whether it be monetary or through social media exposure.
To express our utmost gratitude, our students came up with the idea to devise a small personalized memento for each and every donor just as a small thank you. Although many are currently on spring break, there is consistent work towards this goal as well as towards the preparation and finalized logistics of the trip to Championships!

Over the course of the past few weeks, our team has been interviewed and observed by a variety of local newspapers as well as popular television stations- CNN, NY1, and PIX11 are among the few.
Below are links for the existing articles and segments. Our most recent segments (PIX11 and CNN) have not yet been published.
http://queenscourier.com/lic-students-move-on-to-robotics-world-championship/
http://www.timesledger.com/stories/2015/14/robotigers_tl_2015_04_03_q.html
http://www.timesledger.com/stories/2015/12/robotics_tl_2015_03_20_q.html
http://www.ny1.com/nyc/queens/news/2015/03/26/queens--robo-tigers-win-city-crown--gear-up-for-global-robotics-championship.html

Additionally, here is a link to our robot’s CAD model, or computer aided design model. It was fully created by some of our dedicated student members who designed it with industry-grade, professional software.

https://sketchfab.com/models/40f62589576346a98e5b4cf226b70347
Our robot in action!We're the green bot!
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Posted by Nicole Zagada
21 months ago
Thank you so much for everyone that has generously donated or shared this link. The students are working so hard preparing for championship.
They have presented for NY1, PIX11, spoken to two different local newspapers, and been planning internal fundraisers to do everything they can to get to St. Louis and compete.
It is hard to find a group of high school students so passionate about something so thank you again to everyone helping to make this trip a possibility.
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$10,688 of $25k goal

Raised by 24 people in 22 months
Created March 18, 2015
NZ
Nicole Zagada  
JE
$50
Jacqueline Edwards
9 months ago
$40
Anonymous
21 months ago
TL
$100
Teresita Lopez
21 months ago

Good luck Robotigers! Bradley, so proud of you! Auntie Tita

$4,000
Anonymous
21 months ago (Offline Donation)
EM
$200
Edith Moog
21 months ago

Good luck, ROBOTIGERS!

TB
$100
Tatiana Borrayo
21 months ago

Go robo tigres! Best of luck!

KL
$25
Koon Lui
21 months ago

Do your best and make the city and LIC proud. Always want to help the future of Earth and this is a great investment.

JP
$30
Joel Pena
21 months ago

Good luck guys! I know you'll do great as always!

EG
$50
Eric Gomez
21 months ago

Class of 1991 is proud of you!!!

SP
$100
Samantha Papaccio
21 months ago

Good luck!

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