[EricH]

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

You also want to start some savings for the team. My team has always managed to bring in a little more than we've spent, and as a result paying for champs this year wasn't all that bad - we got a little more from existing sponsors, and didn't have to do any major fundraising effort for it.

Quick comment on this: If you can, you want to build up enough for registration for the next year in your savings. (The "if you can" refers more to "if the school bureaucracy will let you without taking some or all of it", BTW.) That way, if for some reason you have a really bad year fundraising, you can at least field a robot the next year from a financial standpoint. Now, raising that all at once might be an issue, but you can build up to it.