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Well, here we are, three days away from the registration payment deadline. Due to one of our mentors' over-reliance on large grants and my own ignorance towards the fundraising process, we are at this point with exactly the same $2,500 we started this school year off with, left-over from a grant we received last year. Our school district has been adamant in its refusal to put any money into our team, and none of the grants we had applied for this year were accepted.

With the funding deadline looming so closely, FRC team 4301 stands on the edge of dissolution due to a lack of funding. It saddens me to think that our team may end up existing for only two years before disappearing forever.

I would like to ask the FIRST community what can be done to gain the necessary funding to complete registration before the deadline so that we may continue competing in FIRST. Any help is very gratefully appreciated!