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Re: Do Non-School Teams Have An Advantage?

It all depends on each individual situation. Neither is better than the other.

We have zero delay with ordering parts, I front everything robot on my credit card and the school writes me a check at a later time. Travel, we just tell them where we are going and when. If it's within Illinois or 1 state over the school district provides school busses at no cost to us (saves us thousands every year!). Kids sign waivers through the school to participate. Our shop is actually off campus so that makes it logistically easier, though if we want to use rooms at the school we just submit a request for it. Not a big deal. School also allows us to utilize their box truck for transporting large amounts of things (like our field).

Snow days do hurt (got lucky the only super cold days this year there was no school anyway). We can't use more than 10 passenger vans. And a school employee has to be present at meetings (though myself and 2 other mentors have become "team coaches" for this reason).

This is just us, I've heard plenty of situations which would be considered the complete opposite.
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