[ehfeinberg]

Being on a fellow MCPS team, I can tell you that doing anything through the school is a great pain! The biggest besides getting janitors to unlock your build space after you pay for it would be managing funds. I think we found that if we managed funds through the school, there would be many spending limits. These include but are not limited to; you can only spend so much money on any given purchase, you can only spend so much money per day and so much per month, I also think if you needed to spend more than the amount you wanted you had to fill out tons and tons of paperwork. Pain especially in FRC where you spend most of your money in a short span of a few weeks!

How Blair went around this is our funds are now managed through the Blair Magnet Program (a non-profit). This allows us much more freedom on how we spend our money. I'm not 100% sure on the details of this arrangement, but if you like, I can get some of our mentors to email you the details.

Glad to see a new MCPS FRC team. Now we are one a way from a full MCPS scrimmage! If you have any questions on how to deal with MCPS, or just questions in general feel free to shoot me an email.