Progress Report

Hi, this is Coach Jenny. We are looking forward to the state competition at DSU this weekend.

If you did not gather from our last post, as we researched more after the regional qualifier, we learned from John Kantor of the Utah County Search and Rescue team, that there are chemical resistant dry suits that can protect divers from chemicals in the water.

The bad news was, that they cost $2,300 or more. We set a goal to raise as much money as we can to donate to our local search and rescue dive team toward a suit. So far we have had a lot of success:

$230. Hurricane City
$230. Washington County Water Conservancy District
$50.   Anonymous cash donor at Hurricane City Council meeting
$50.  Scholzen's Products
$100. RVzz LLC
*$300. Camping World
*$1,000 Washington County Commission / Sheriff's office
$55 Awesome Aunts and Uncles of the kids on our team

This brings us to a total of $2,015. We are very happy with the results, and we have a couple more leads that may help us get to our goal.

On the robotics side, we have been working on some additional shorter missions in the hope that we will be able to get more points at state than we did at region. I feel hopeful that what we have done will work.

And last but not least, at our last meeting we decided that with the stress of end of the season we needed to have some fun, and we played "Do You Love Your Neighbor." It was delightful!

I was very proud of the kids for doing their presentation in front of the city and county. They did a great job, and were very grateful to have the donations and commitments that came in for Search and Rescue.

*Pledged / Pending

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