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| Our thoughts and approach for Sponsors | | As with most non-profit educational organizations, our Workshop's financial status is always on the edge. We have structured our prices to meet the needs of the Workshop and to "break even" each year. By keeping our costs to the minimum, we make every effort to fashion this Workshop into an educationally and financially sound investment for our paying registrants. | | Yet there is one group of potential registrants who find it financially difficult to attend our Workshop, under-graduate and graduate college students. They are usually stretched to their financial limits and there frequently isn't much left over for independent academic events like our Workshop. | | To encourage and assist this student population with limited finances to attend, the Maine Pegmatite Workshop has worked extremely close with Poland Mining Camps (our venue host) to insure that the cost to the self-funded college student is trimmed to the minimum. When called for, the self-funded students are subsidized by the Workshop, our T-Shirt sales and Poland Mining Camps' generosity. Additionally, most of the mine owners we visit have donated the mine fees we pay them, back to support the students. Speaking for all three sponsoring groups, it is our believe that we need to support all students, making sure they are part of the group, that they have everything they need to encourage their educational growth. They are the future of Pegmatology and the related fields. | | Most students who want to attend our Workshop can afford in some way the reduced rate, and the conditions required for the rate. But the Workshop also becomes aware of specific students who are desperately eager to attend, but cannot afford the self-funded student rate and/or travel expenses to the venue. We learn about these students through their professors, university, or our colleagues and friends. By whatever means, we try to find the way for these students to attend. But the Workshop has limited resources. | | It is for all of these situations and deserving students that we are asking for your financial assistance and help. |
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