Pepsi Refresh Project – Vote for Us!

A Letter from the Director:

Hello Family, Friends, and Colleagues,

Nancy and I, and Melani Duffrin, need your assistance throughout the month of September.  Please help us.

Our non-profit nature and science learning center, A Time for Science has been working with ECU’s FoodMASTER program in the College of Human Ecology and ECU’s Center for Science, Math and Technology Education on a variety of approaches to use food and agricultural sciences to build a science learning environment and resources for children and teachers in eastern North Carolina.  Among various grant applications we have submitted is one to the Pepsi Refresh Project entitled “Build collaborative science learning environments for Eastern NC.”  Obtaining this grant would provide A Time for Science with $150,000 with which to improve and enhance the infrastructure and facilities at the Center and throughout the conservation lands to better handle these programs and activities.

Now to win a Pepsi Refresh Project grant requires that we receive more votes than our competitors and voting is open daily throughout the month of September.  Here’s where you and everyone in you network of friends and colleagues can help.  Go to this website http://www.refresheverything.com/foodmaster and complete the necessary sign in and vote for our proposal.  Then return every day and vote again – everyday through September.  You can cast 30 votes and we will need each and every one but you must do so only once each day.  By the way, if you have multiple e-mail addresses you can cast a vote from each one.

With your help A Time for Science will be able to make a real contribution to the improvement of science education for students and teachers in this underserved area.  So get out and vote and get all your friends to vote (and their friends, etc – you know the drill).

Finally, one last point: We hope you won’t mind but our grants people will probably be sending out frequent, friendly reminders to help you remember to get out the vote.

Thanks for your assistance in making this happen.

Sincerely,

John and Nancy Bray

(Note: This post updated to remove all interactive voting.  Webmaster – 12/28/2011)