Hello everyone, Welcome back to the first video or 2020. I put a new slightly shorter intro together, I would love to hear your thoughts. Let me know if you love it or hate it, or worse, are indifferent.

This first video is not going to be about tech. One of the other areas of focus for FUTRtech is to give something back, and that is what I am going to talk about today.

It is St Baldrick’s time again! 

I will be shaving my head on January 26 to raise money for childhood cancer research, and who doesn’t want to help end childhood cancer.

I am doing this to honor of the very sweet and charming Sophia Zematis who really deserves more from all of us on the curing cancer front. This year, however, cancer has hit even closer to home. My mother has been in cancer treatment for the last few months. I have to say, chemo and radiation is not a great treatment. It is quite brutal. There has to be a better way.

You can get to my St. Baldricks page here and in the text below. Anything you can give helps.

More children are lost to cancer in the U.S. than any other disease—in fact, more than many other childhood diseases combined. 

Before they turn 20, about 1 in 285 children in the U.S. will have cancer. Worldwide, a child is diagnosed every 2 minutes.

With all this, only 4% of Federal funding is solely dedicated to childhood cancer research. There is a huge gap to fill for pediatric cancer.

It is not all bad news. In the 1950s, almost all kids diagnosed with cancer died. Because of research, today about 90% of kids with the most common types of cancer will live. But for many other types, progress has been limited, and for some kids there is still little hope for a cure.

I am trying to decide whether to do the full shave, or to go with the Mohawk. If anyone has an opinion, let me know in the comments.

So if you can, please take a moment to visit my page and add your support at:

https://www.stbaldricks.org/participants/cbrandt

Please forward on to anyone with a big heart you think might be interested in helping. Thanks to everyone who has supported this cause in the past and who will do so right now.