02/25/2026
Fairmont State's Day of Giving is tomorrow (3/26) and the WV Robotics Alliance needs your help to keep our program sustainable and growing.
Conservatively, our team impacts several thousand students a year at qualifiers, state and regional championships, workshops and camps, and through a range of support mechanisms. On an almost weekly basis, we rent trucks and pay for travel to haul our trailer full of tournament equipment across the state to empower schools such as Eastwood Elementary and St. Joes to host an IQ, V5, and ADC qualifiers.
Annually, we purchase new game elements, replace broken fields, update our field controls, and ensure our cameras and live-streaming equipment are running optimally ($10,000). We run summer camps which requires summer staffing, travel, and robotics kits ($30,000). When we have the resources, we sponsor new teams ($1,000 - $2,500), and waive event registrations.
Providing volunteer shirts, meals, and often travel for Key Volunteer roles (Head Ref, Judge Advisor, etc.) for qualifiers and state championships is costly ($10,000+). We are grateful for our many sponsors including A3L Federal Works, Aurora Flight Sciences, WV Department of Education, NASA West Virginia Space Grant Consortium, NASA's Robotics Alliance Project, and others.
Please consider a gift to keep us on the road at schools and college campuses, hosting the highest quality events, trainings, and camps possible to inspire the next generation of WV scientists, programmers, engineers, and mathematicians.
Join me and make a gift to Fairmont State for Day of Giving
