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Thanksgiving Gratitude!

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We hope you all had a very happy Thanksgiving, enjoying many good things. We certainly did! The Green Mountain Girls will be supporting us again this year; I encourage you to also support them as a great non-profit organization that helps fundraise for other local non-profit groups (including us, yay!)

The Vermont Academy of Science and Engineering has also provided us a grant to further outreach to the Greater Manchester community, with which we plan to design a robot “kit” to give hands-on experience during limited-time, casual workshops. After we finish building our competition robots, Cordelia and Cornelius and Thomas, we will use that experience along with the grant to put together some open house opportunities.

We have also been the beneficiary of several private donors – you know who you are, and thank you so very much!

All donations go 100% toward supporting our FIRST Tech Challenge program. All mentors and coaches are volunteers, and as we charge no membership fees, all of our funding comes from grants and donations.

This Giving Tuesday, please consider donating to the future of humankind. We are a club that teaches the next generation of innovators how to build robots and work with the technology of tomorrow, building robots out of repurposed Android devices. Help us shape the next generation of engineers, entrepreneurs, and visionaries – donate to your local robotics club, the Manchester Machine Makers, today with PayPal here. 

Thanks to be given!

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Some great news for our supporters as we begin the season of gratitude: the Manchester Machine Makers was recently the grateful recipient of a grant from the Green Mountain Girls, a local organization with a heart of gold!

Margie from the Green Mountain Girls presents a check to Meg, our mentor!

The Green Mountain Girls is a volunteer organization that supports all the local charities in the area. We are incredibly honored to have their support – and we hope that we earn it by the work that we do to provide STEAM activities to inspire our teenagers (or at least to keep these all-too-bright kids out of trouble)!

If you’re looking for a group to donate to in order to round out your fiscal year, of course I’d say give it to us first; but perhaps I’m a bit biased. The Green Mountain Girls come in a pretty close second, though!