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'Fates Hand' is an online gaming community that I started a year and a half ago in the summer between my sophomore and junior years in highschool. Our major project has been providing a community for young players and old online and in different online games. Alot of time people have a hard time finding communities of gaming where they can be completely comfortable, especially with parents (or their children for the older members) watching over their shoulders. In addition to providing a generally friendly atmosphere, we have also been a positive enough influence in the game 'Phantasy Star Universe' to have Sega of America endorse us on a number of our player run 'events'. (Fun in-game contests based on the rules of the game itself.)

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I am planning on holding a LGBT friendly dance in the Greater Seattle Area.

Many students (including non-LGBT students in high school) do not feel comfortable going to dances with their significant other because of hostility in their own school. Students also need to have feelings of safety, comfort, and community to be successful adults.

Seattle is known for being very LGBT friendly, however Seattle also is known by some for having a very large percentage of LGBT youth that are at-risk. I hope this event will increase feelings of community and connections within the Seattle youth community.

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The club at our school, W.A.R.R, (Wantagh Animal Rights & Recycling) is a wonderful club to join at our school, and its very helpful to the community. Every meeting we do something helpful to our enviornment. So far in this year, we have supplied every classroom with recycling bins, and have started a recycling program. We have also done trail cleanups to clean the litter scattered by our school and its surrounding area. Another thing our club has done was sell T-shirts to help save the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica. For every 10 shirts we sold, we saved an acre. We are preparing to fill the year with wonderful recycling joy!!!!! With the $500 that we are hoping to win, we plan on promoting our recycling program even more. Our funds are limited, and this would help our school a lot. We hope that you pick our school!!!!!!!!!!