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"Prescott Invasion"
The CocoNuts are traveling down to Prescott, Arizona on March 3rd, to engage in an entire day of presentations about the excitement of FIRST to Prescott area elementary and middle schools. Even though its over 70 miles away, the CocoNuts wish to establish FLL in the Prescott area as they did in Flagstaff.
FUSD Override Campaigning
On March 10th, the city of Flagstaff and the surrounding area will vote on extending a budget override for the Flagstaff Unified School District (FUSD). While the CocoNuts do not receive direct financial assistance from the school district, they nonetheless wish to maintain high-quality public education in Flagstaff. Thereby, the CocoNuts will be campaigning for the passage of the FUSD override until the day of the election, March 9th.
W.L. Gore Proposal
The CocoNuts have partnered with the Coconino County School Superintendent's Office to propose a joint venture with the Flagstaff-based Medical Division of the engineering firm W.L. Gore & Associates to expand opportunities for students to engage in FIRST throughout not only Flagstaff, but rural Northern Arizona. This proposal, if successful, would enable the CocoNuts to open up numerous opportunities for disadvantaged, low-income, minority students across the expanse of a county larger than the state of Massachusetts. As of early January, this proposal has been moving forward successfully.
CHS Robotics Letter
In addition the CocoNuts are working on instating a "Robotics Letter" at Coconino High School to recognize the time and dedication of members of the robotics team in a similar way to varsity sports.
NAU FIRST Scholarship
In addition, the CocoNuts are lobbying Northern Arizona University (NAU) in Flagstaff to institute a scholarship for FIRST participants, seeing that NAU is the only public university in Arizona without one. Alongside this, the CocoNuts are also lobbying NAU to become an organizing partner of FTC in Arizona, in a similar way how Arizona State University is the state organizing partner of FLL.
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Page last updated 02-20-2010
