[Cory]

It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me that Beatty Mfg would drop all support of the team. I can see that the money could be going away, but why would their subsidiary closing have any effect on their ability to donate labor and engineering support? Perhaps the article isn't nuanced enough to make the distinction.

I hate to judge the situation without knowing all the facts, but it seems like the robotics team may have become the pawn in a political dispute.