For our team, we've had to move our physical lab for the third time in three years. Our funding hasn't come in as quickly as last year. Apparently, some of the grants are either slow in coming or have not been awarded yet. The correspondence from the granter organization is "no reply". I'm getting nervous and am thinking of our team selling lightbulbs or something like that to pay the bills. Hopefully the funding will come through.
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Originally Posted by jessjank.
The trends you all are referring to certainly appear troubling.
I can't speak for the rest of Texas, but the RD/Assistant RD, Senior Mentor, and Vista staff for Alamo have been busy over the past month contacting all teams who have not yet registered.
In quite a few cases, teams aren't coming back because teachers/lead mentors have been lost. I've been trying to connect teams in those situations, when possible, to other teams to try to help them work through that difficulty. In other cases, teams are just being really slow to actually register although they are still intending to... I've given them quite a bit of prodding.
However, we need to compare these present numbers to last year. I posted some old data below for reference.
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