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Re: Help
Mentors: teachers (shop teachers, business teachers, computer science/programming teachers, school IT personnel, etc.) are a great resource if you can convince them to spend extra time with students. Perhaps part time mentors from local businesses or local branches of larger companies (these businesses will also likely be good candidates to ask for funds).
Sponsors: like people have been saying, you basically have to be willing to ask lots of companies/businesses. Work any closer connections you may have.
Training: my team might not be a great role model in this area, but we have a short preseason (November and December) in which we meet about once a week and teachers/mentors/experienced students teach the new kids how to do things, usually through projects.
I don't know if you have problems with getting enough students to maintain a stable team, but if so, here goes: My team is in our 5th year, the first without any founding members left on the student side of things. One of the big ways that we have grown is through recruitment of friends. I was introduced to the team as a sophomore by a friend of mine who was a senior at the time. I have since guided A few friends who also have technical interests onto the team. A second important source of students for us is through the Project Lead the Way classes taught by our head mentor.
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