UPDATE **** We have reached our goal! *** thanks to the generosity of APers -- and please consider donating to the US teams (junior and senior)!
:-) Barb -----
Dear friends,
I convinced a 5th grade teacher in Cambridge to bring her entire class to the sprints on Friday 10/21. They will be running the white course. They have been learning about maps and orienteering at school.
This is an urban school, with 55% free and reduced lunch (that's how we measure family income here), and 53% students of color. The principal tells me that for a lot of families, it really is a hardship to pay full cost for field trips; many families have lost jobs or have had their salaries reduced in the current economic downturn. I would like to ask you to help me pay for the costs of the trip: A-meet registration for the kids, and the transportation. I'm hoping to raise $470.
Here are the mechanics:
Please let me know (either on this thread or by email) how much you plan to send in. (so that we don't raise too much!)
Then write a check to Friends of the Morse School, 40 Granite St, Cambridge, MA 02139, and send it in ASAP. Please write on it "5th grade orienteering". You will get a letter back so that you can get the tax writeoff for a donation to a non-profit. Alternatively, I can make the contribution for you and you can reimburse me later.
Thank you very much for your support!
I will also mention here that there will be a food concession fund-raiser for the US junior team, on Saturday of the meet, and I hope you will all contribute to that as well!
As inspiration, here are a couple photos from another recent school field trip: