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Originally Posted by Victor4400

You should explain to your school why FIRST is important to you and show them your achievments

Thanks, but we've already done this and what our school district is giving right now is very generous. If the budget does not pass, all afterschool clubs and district wide teams such as marching band, cheerleading and our dance team get eliminated along with the robotics team and only varsity sports stay(all middle school and JV sports are eliminated).

Originally Posted by Billfred

If you do lose the money, don't automatically assume you're dead in the water. Some teams make it happen without direct money from the school.

We're planning on using this summer to gain more sponsors and we have one very last resort measure in place. We see ourselves that we can sustain ourselves without the school, but we don't want to lose our build space and have no place to go and lose access to all of our tools.

Thanks for the suggestions. Anymore are welcome and I will post the verdict of the budget when it is released.