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This year I took some students out after school to try to raise money to purchase a 4 slot CRIO. After being just able to hand out the sponsorship letter to most businesses, 1 business made our day. They immediately agreed to cover half a large portion of the cost and told us if no one else responded to let them know and they would help with the rest.

In 2008 when we got our bid to Atlanta we searched high and low for the best way for our large team(we took 40 people between students, parents, and the principal's family and secretary) to travel there. One of our students got in contact with the owner of a bus company and he agreed to let us use one of their buses for only the cost of gas and the drivers expenses. Although we were unable to use his business because the principal covered the cost for us to fly down out of the schools auction funds.

If you don't ask, you'll never know what could have been. The worst thing that can happen is them saying no.