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Originally Posted by Jessica Boucher
Honestly, this increase is way overdue. Especially with how last year's financials worked out.
But fear not. $2000 extra is only 2 $1000 donations, 4 $500, 8 $250, 20 $100, 40 $50, or 80 $20 donations. With 13 weeks from now until September, you have 6.5 weeks to get both $1000 donations, 3.25 weeks for the $500 ones, and 1.625 weeks for the $250 donations.
If you can build an entire robot in 6 weeks from start to finish, a $1000 donation should be no sweat. So, hop to it! 
PS. $2000 = 40,000 returned cans. I suggest hitting up some companies.  |
May be easy for some teams, but this strikes me as quite and problem for ours. Some teams have the resources that 2000 isn't much, but teams like us have a difficult time raising 6000+ just to cover both our entry fee, and the costs to build the robot. Now we'll have to end up looking for a lot more money that really isn't that available. I'm very interested in why they actually increased the fee. Do they every have a cost breakdown of the entry fee?
--I realize they tried to explain it in the e-mail, but do they ever have a dollar for dollar cost breakdown?