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Unread 27-09-2003, 22:07
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You know your school is warming to FIRST when they set their fundraiser on the job to raise money for the robotics team.


Backstory: I go to SLUH, a Jesuit institution, and much of the schools cash flow comes from alumni and local business. Last year wasn't an issue because we got the NASA grant, but to get the NASA grant again this year, we need to show 6K of our own funding. When the administration got word of this, the told us not to try to do it ourselves. There reasoning is this: Say we (the robotics team) manages to procure a few thousand dollers from a local business. When the school's guy calls that same business to push for, say, 20K in donations, the business can say "we already donated to your team etc." and the school has lost that valualble source of $$. On the other hand, if the school's guy calls the same business without our having called them, he can say: I need a whole lotta money and lots will goto our robotics team. then the business will say: We will sell our company to our competitors and give you all the proceeds. And everyone is happy.

So we have professionals doing our fundraising. How awesome.
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