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Originally Posted by Mk.32
However for sports quite a few people invest a lot into it in hopes to be recruited for a school which FIRST cannot provide. Just my .02$.
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FIRST doesn't have recruiting to schools? Huh. Must have been some other reason I applied to Kettering then. I think that FIRST, as Dean has put it before, is the only "sport" that all of our members can go pro in. In applying to colleges recently, there have been plenty of schools that ask if you participate in Robotics. Take a walk down Scholarship row; there's admissions officers waiting to talk to each and every one of us. I think there is plenty of opportunity to be "recruited" by a college.
Perhaps at this point you could also, if you're up for a few more phone calls, expand your search to not just technology and engineering firms. Try calling around anywhere; for instance, is there a restaurant that your team frequents? You could ask them for a little bit, not necessarily the full $5000.