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I don't know about all of the teams in Louisiana, but all the ones I can think of are associated with a public or private high school (or in the case of 1912, two public schools located about five miles by road from each other). I've always wondered how teams can manage school absences if they're not associated with a school or a home school group; five non-field-trip absences in a semester will result in a high school student failing in Louisiana public schools.

3946 also has "Slidell Tiger Robotics Booster Club, Inc.", which is a state-chartered 501 (c) (3) which handles a significant portion of the funding for the team, and is designed after the "Band Booster" model; I understand that this is not the usual case here. Due to policies of the sponsors and the school board, some of our money must go through the school account, but we pass as much as we can through STRBC as the processes to spend and manage the money are much simpler. For sponsorship recognition purposes, we consider gifts to the STRBC as equivalent to gifts to our school account.