Poplar Grove Middle School*TECHFIT Team ***** Del Rio Pike*Franklin, TN *******Good aft...

Poplar Grove Middle School*TECHFIT Team ***** Del Rio Pike*Franklin, TN *******Good afternoon! **Poplar Grove Middle School’s TECHFIT team is requesting donations for an upcoming competition at Purdue University. Our TECHFIT team of ** students was included in the * teams selected for this national competition. Please consider sponsoring us!**Our **** TECHFIT students have been selected with the unique opportunity to compete in the final showcase on Purdue University’s campus in West Lafayette, Indiana. It will take us six hours to drive to Purdue and we will be staying one night in a hotel. We will need money for materials*supplies and to support our transportation and lodging. Our bookkeeper handles all financial transactions. **Estimation for hotels: ** rooms…about $*,****Food: about $*,*** (this is with students bringing Sunday lunch)*Transportation: $*,*** *Total: $*,***.****We will recognize your contribution on all our school social media platforms.***Deb Shuler*****Laura Lavery******@***.com*********@***.com ***Additional information:**https:**techfit.tech.purdue.edu***TECHFIT (Teaching Engineering Concepts to Harness Future Innovators and Technologists) is a *.*M National Science Foundation project in its fifth year. TECHFIT seeks to spark STEM interest in middle school children by demonstrating the impact information and technology have on our world and inspiring this next generation of innovators to design and implement technology-based fitness games to get people moving and having fun while simultaneously and positively improving their health. **Program overview:*The goal of TECHFIT is to combine the importance of technology and fitness into an experience that should energize teachers, engage students, and excite communities through innovation designed to address possible solutions for getting people active while having fun and learning the value of STEM subjects. To accomplish this goal, TECHFIT will:*Train science, math, technology, and physical education teachers in exergame tools.*Equip teachers with the information, lessons, strategies, and tools needed to deliver an exergame program*Provide teachers with ongoing, subject-specific & technical support for the program.*Provide students with experience in exergame development using TECHFIT tools.*Host a Team Showcase where teams will demonstrate their work and results. **The culminating activity of the TECHFIT program will be the showcase competition. It will bring together teams from participating schools to demonstrate their exergames and related materials to showcase attendees. Invitations will be sent to other schools, family, friends, and the community at large. Having been modeled after the FIRST Robotics competitions, the TECHFIT Team Showcase will engender a cooperative spirit and give students an academic and professional experience that will encourage them to discuss technology-related ideas with their peers and promote an interest in careers in STEM subjects. Judges will evaluate the exergames on originality, creativity, qualification as a fitness game, level of perceived fun by game players, to name a few. ******Please Donate*love you