[GreyingJay]

Team 2706 Merge Conflict is a community-based FRC team in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. As we are not supported directly by any school, we started our own non profit organization called Ottawa West Community Robotics to be the legal entity "in charge" of the team. The board of directors of OWCR consists of the founding mentors for Team 2706.

We followed closely in the footsteps of the W.A.F.F.L.E.S. (4476) a similar community based team in Kingston, Ontario. They went through all the organizational paperwork already so they showed us how to do it. We also had feedback from Team 781 Kinetic Knights, who went a step further and registered as a Canadian charity.

Our team relies 100% on the generosity of our sponsors who provide everything from a place to meet and store our equipment, to donations of tools, equipment, straight up cash, and of course providing mentors.

The hope is that Ottawa West Community Robotics may one day run other area FRC, VEX, FLL teams, all with the goal of promoting STE(A)M in our community.