[kristinweiss]

Well our budget this year for the team was $5,000 including the pit and everything we needed as a rookie team but fortunately we were allowed to use the shop at a high school that many team members including myself attend and the school just got a major renovation including the brand new shop. The $10,000 grant is for the engineering teacher who does not know what to spend it on and asked our CEO and me what we would like to have in the shop that would benefit the team and help teach his students about new technology in engineering. Our answer was a 3D printer that we could use for the robot but also could be used to create models of his student's work.