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Re: Limit team $
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Originally Posted by MrJohnston
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 $4000 robot cost is a great constraint and equalizer already.... Besides travel, here are other things that just plain cost more due to the size of our team:
* Training materials.
* Tools.
* Workspace (we built a shop this year)
* Additional training/practice robots - so that *all* kids can work on something.
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I agree. my team is 60 students and close to 20 active mentors. from that we brought 40 students and 9 mentors to St. Louis. We drained our bank account so much that we cant pay for a bus to get to our favorite off season event, Battlecry 14 at WPI. Money is a huge problem for my team (but I am working to fix that.) I do think that a 4000$ limit for the robot might make things interesting.
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