[legogeek24]

Thank you all for your quick responses.



To answer some of your questions, I realized I might not have made myself entirely clear, I apologize. I'll start with some clarification.



LiveWire was set up as a school team. We were designated as affiliated with one high school, but we involved students from all three high schools in our town. Consequently, the school district ultimately sanctioned the team. Though they provided no monetary support, we were nonetheless bound to them.



The school district has also made it extremely clear that LiveWire is not to have any of our equipment, tools, robots, etc. LiveWire will not ever be able to acquire its equipment again. We have pleaded to the school district, repeatedly asked for their reasoning, each team member, most parents, and mentors wrote personal letters to the board members, we even scheduled meetings with the superintendent -- only to have them cancelled. The only reason we have ever been given is "the district is moving in a different direction." That is literally the only response we've been given, after repeated attempts to get more information.

I was also just informed that the school district has declared all of our equipment and money to be school district property, and HayWire is not allowed to share any of it with us. We do not know why the school district has designated this, it is as much a mystery to us as to anyone else.



We have already reached out to our regional director and to FIRST. They helped us acquire a new team number, as the school district would not release the number 3456 for us to use. The school district tried to prevent us from even continuing on as a team, but with the help of FIRST, (Thank you Mr. Merrick!) the district was defeated in this endeavor. They did succeed in withholding our number from us though.



Again, we have no idea why the district decided to do this to us. We always did our best to stay in good relations, "Pocatello School District 25" was displayed prominently on our robot, robot truck, and website, and our team's outreach endeavors correlate directly with the goals of the district.



MrBasse, thank you so much. We will keep in contact if the situation does not get better, we really appreciate the offer.