Thread: Limit team $
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Re: Limit team $

No.

We have over 100 students and 20 active mentors on our team. It cost us about $60,000 just to attend Nationals (less than half the team attended)and anotehr $15,000 to attend our second regional - only 2hrs away from us - and these costs do not include entry fees.

The $4000 robot cost is a great constraint and equalizer already.... Besides travel, here are other things that just plain cost more due to the size of our team:

* Training materials.
* Tools.
* Workspace (we built a shop this year)
* Additional training/practice robots - so that *all* kids can work on something.
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