Small Microsoft grants or donations?

[moradalisa]

I'm teaching an Intro to Game Design course with 50 students this semester.
We're a Hispanic serving California public community college where funding is
currently scare. I'm using XNA Game Studio and Visual Studios with the
O'Reilly book Learning XNA 3.0 by Aaron Reed.

I would really like to be able to teach the students how to program to
mobile devices and game consoles. Introducing networked game play would be
fabulous. However, it is out of my personal budget to purchase a Zune
(mobile device) and two or more XBox Game consoles. I've personally
purchased a game controller for the students, but the other hardware is just
a little too expensive for me to fund.

So my question is, does anyone know who I can write to at Microsoft and
request a donation of a Zune, XBox (or two), and a router if I can obtain
more that one XBox. Sorry to post here, but I've spent hours looking for
someplace or someone to send a request, but just haven't found anything.

THANKS for any help you can provide!

[SocalSam]

Oh this is a tough one, Microsoft works with over 3000 schools worldwide. I
do work with Community Colleges in California.

If you could do me a favor, email:
fch...@microsoft.com

I need your contact number, ASAP! And sorry about the delay in getting back
to you.

Reference this forum entry or put my online id: "Socal Sam" in the subject
line and it will get to me.

It is likely that I am working with your Community College already and you
don't know it due to the difficulty of communications with any particular
community college in California.

If you want you can go to my blog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/devschool , I mention my blog just because I could use
a few views. :)