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Originally Posted by ExcuseBoy
Hey guys, my name is Hunter Stanford from Team 6621 in Moose Creek, AK (Interior Distance Education of Alaska). I'm excited to share to big news about our team for this upcoming FRC season!   
We are pleased to announce that starting the 2017 season, we will be participating in FRC tournaments locally, statewide, and even nationwide if we qualify! We are so happy about this because we love robots and legos. We have loved legos ever since we were little children and we love making lego cars even now! We have decided to name our team the Piztons after our famous local lard brand "Piztons Inc.," who are our only sponsor. I am currently the only student from my high school officially on the roster, but I have a few friends who are excited to join!
Feel free to ask questions in the comments! I will try to answer almost all of them! |
I have a question. With a single sponsor how are you going to afford the trip costs down to the Pacific Northwest district events you are part of? Last year iirc there was only 1 team from Alaska team 568 "Nerds of the North". As an Alaskan team you have to deal with having no events in your state and if you plan on hopefully making worlds. You have to do 2 or 3 events in Washington/Oregon just get there. Here are the events you could have attended last year
https://www.thebluealliance.com/events/pnw/2016#events. This will probably stay pretty similar plus and minus a few events.
So yea I am not trying to discourage you but just know you need to raise a ton of money to be sustainable. You will have to take into account flights, hotels, robot costs, registration costs, ect. Hope you guys can get enough money and become the 2nd Alaskan FRC team.
Good luck its not going to be easy.