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Originally posted by AJ Quick
These are figurative questions.
What if your sponsor has been sponsoring the team for 10 years, and owns all the rights to the name, logo, and all things developed by any team members for the team? What if they decided to move to another school for a few years, then another after a few more? What if they lied to you and said there would be no more team at all at any school, but continued on with a new school secretly? What if represenatives of the sponsor needed to be present every time you did something related to the team, and approve anything written about the team? What if the sponsor represenatives controlled all the meetings, and didn't allow the High School teachers to have any say in anything? Additionally, what if your sponsor representatives are the main contacts for FIRST?
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If this relationship is so unsatisfactory to the team then it should find a new sponsor and stop complaining. If this was so bad why did the team persist for 10 years!
Overall the situation sounds like an internal team management issue and all involved should be openly dealing with it. Different people have their own ways of managing. Not all are the most student friendly. But this is not the kind of thing to air publicly.
Considering the large amount of money and time many companies put into their teams a proprietory attitude might be expected. Allowing unsupervised students to put out materials using corporate trademarks is not a wise idea. A FIRST team is a side project but their trademark is their corporate reputation.
From the above it appears that the "new school (secret)" is happy to get the sponsorship. Most teams would be grateful for 10 years of support. Perhaps demonstrating support of the new "sister" team would be more productive.