[Mark Hamilton]

I find it interesting you mention us. Just to clear things up, the school itself gives us almost no support. Our money comes from our sponsor Motorola (and they have far less to give then you might think), a number of smaller sponsors we have gotten, and our own pockets. UCF was our first regional and the only one we are taking our entire team too. It cost roughly $250 per person to go. If we hadn't qualified for Nat's there the chances of us getting to go to nationals would have been very slim. Only 8 members from our team will be attending nationals this year due to the expense and short amount of time available. We are going at all because of a lot of hard work. Everyone should consider themselves lucky to be part of FIRST. Our mentors and sponsors didn't have a FIRST program. Do the best you can with what you've got.