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Originally Posted by geomapguy

Contact your regional director and/or senior mentor. They might be able to help you with funding. (Sometimes they'll help your team ask FIRST for an extension)

Good Luck!

Thanks! I will attempt to contact my regional director and senior mentor tonight. Hopefully we can get something worked out there.

Originally Posted by yash101

Do you guys have a tax-credit program, like in AZ? If so, use those to fund you. With tax-credit, we can get $400 per person, and they lose no money. It is payed back to them in the taxes!

I'm not entirely sure whether or not Texas has a tax credit program. Where would I need to look to find out?

Originally Posted by Mark Sheridan

This depends on how your school is and how many students you have but when i was on 766, we charged a fee on the team. I think it was $200 at first but could be waved if a student has finical hardships. i think 3309 does $100 I don't remember. I will have to ask another mentor.

Now this may sound weird but its a fairly standard practice in high school sports especially ones with a lot of equipment. I think I was charged a couple hundred to play lacrosse in high school. i think it was like 20 bucks for track. That could get you some money in a hurry.

With only 15 people on our team right now for free, I'm not sure that we would be able to put a team fee in place without compromising our student base. I will have to ask my teacher about whether or not we would be able to do so.

Thank you all for these tips! Hopefully 4301 will be able to pull through this and compete this year!