Team Discovery is the First Team for Pembroke Academy, in Pembroke New Hampshire.  They are in need of financial support to get the FIRST National Event in Atlanta on April 16, 17 and 18th.

FIRST  is a Non-Profit that with mission of:

Our mission is to inspire young people to be science and technology leaders, by engaging them in exciting mentor-based programs that build science, engineering and technology skills, that inspire innovation, and that foster well-rounded life capabilities including self-confidence, communication and leadership.

How does first accomplish this goal?  To sum it up they get teams of High School students to built some amazing robots designed specifically to participate in this years challenge.  Please visit the FIRST site and see some of the amazing robots these students are creating.

Team Discovery participated in the Granite State Regional completion and WON!  So now they are eligible to  compete in the championship. Of course this cost money, and given the short time line has made this a very big challenge.  That is where we started to help Team 134.  To think that we can do this alone is unreasonable.  However, we are doing what we can. 

Team 134 had no web presence; so our first goal was get them a domain name a set up a web site.  Then we went into our bag of trick and started throwing our free resources at the problem to date we have done the following:

• Registered firstteam134.org, which was done during the setting up for Google Apps for Domains.
• Signed up with Google Apps for Domains
• Set up Graffiti CMS, under their free license.
• Signed up with Google Checkout to collection Donations
• Add some content, lots more to do here.

Good luck to Team Discovery!

P.S. Non Profit IT Department will be hosting Teams Discovery's Google Donate button until their competition in April.