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Re: Does your team charge a fee to join?
422 has existed for 15 years and has never charged club dues... until this year.
Demand for the program has grown to a point where we are scaling fundraising to students participating and we can still barely keep up, so we're asking families to contribute $100 for required team apparel and other expenses. Half of that will go to the apparel of 3 shirts (a robot shirt, team shirt, and competition polo, with possibly a nametag) We're hammering out a program to get students unable to pay the money can get their dues paid, and everyone gets a "free trial" as provisional members until kickoff. Members also pay a subsidized fee for travel events and they are also able to receive need-based funding for that if necessary.
We're actively working through long-term plans to meet a maintained high demand for the robotics program and we see maintaining the dues are a part of that future.
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