[Michael Hill]

For us, there are advantages and disadvantages. Our team is a 501c3 with no school affiliation. Advantages include not needing to go through the administration to get parts ordered, we can meet when schools are closed due to snow, we can qualify for certain grants, and we're not restricted on building hours. Disadvantages are more difficult travel, difficult time with school administrations letting students out of school for competition, and no constant steam of new kids to attract to our team. Many schools will not let us demo our robot, so recruitment is done via outreach and mostly by word of mouth.