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Originally Posted by mastachyra
Is it Ok to have corporate sponsors for sports teams?
Is it ok to use your robotics team to recruit kids to your school?
What about finances? Do you need to report to the state sports association?
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You are getting out of my area of expertise in this level of detail, but I've not heard of any of those things changing due to the high school league getting involved. But then I'm not aware of any explicit recruitment of traditional sports students to a particular school. For public schools, you go based on district boundaries, unless you can petition for a legitimate reason, for example, we have one older high school that is not as suitable for wheelchair bound students as the newer high school.
Also, my understanding for MN, is that other than student rules about drug use and the consequences and such, they pretty much stay out of all the operations and their main involvement is providing trophies and showing up to award them-- all the usual FIRST volunteers run the tournament for the most part. They basically said, that's cool, we'll add you to our literature and web site, and get standard state tournament trophies made up for you, but you run the tournament. The first year they charged admission to the event for the public, but haven't since. Disclaimer: I have no direct first hand knowledge of this other than my team's experiences and hearsay from some others closer to the ones in charge.