[thegnat05]

All FIRST teams in our school district charge a fee. Our FRC and FTC teams charge a fee of $225 per student and FLL teams are somewhere around $100. This is because our FTC and FLL teams generally don't have sponsors and are funded completely by their entrance fee. Our FRC teams have very generous sponsors but having that entrance fee helps a lot with budgeting and controlling funding.

All of our FIRST programs are run through the community programing, we call it Community Ed. They are the same people that run things like Club Care after school and Drivers Ed so some of that money goes directly to Community Ed.