[DougHogg]

Originally posted by Powers
yeah, since we didnt qualify for Nat's this year b/c we came in 3rd in QP/ T-3rd in Elim. Our team decided to try and go to the Lonestar competition for at least another competition and a last ditch effort at Nat's..... Well, needless to say, we needed more moola, and when our team mentor from our school asked them for their share of the bucks, they said they would only pay if we were going to Nationals, not for another Regional, I, as a senior, and the 4 other seniors on the team, are feeling shafted right now, and i am thinking of threatening them w/ the fact that two public schools from our county/city won the regional b/c they had money to compete and go to 2 regionals, no offense 108, but my school, Pine Crest, feels they are all high and mighty and that other stuff and may hopefully reconsider in the future, some good that does me, Well, i hope we get one of the spots for Nat's, i just felt like ranting about how gay my school is after i've been there from PK - 12, (yeah, 14 years).

Suggestion:

Get some team members together and go raise some money. Maybe then the school will decide to reward your responsibility and determinism. Of course they may not, but, who knows, you may just figure out how to get the money without them.

Right now, we are planning on going to the Nationals, but don't have the money. We are going to have to raise it by getting sponsors, etc. Currently we are raffling off robotic vacuum cleaners, called Roomba, made by iRobot Corporation. We sell 500 tickets for $5.00 each and then raffle off the vacuum which costs a few hundred. Then we do it again. We will probably be raising money for quite a while after we come back.

Of course, we would love to have some more ideas ourselves, but we are going, come hell or high water (as the saying goes).