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Unhappy Re: IEEE: A Call to Action from Dean Kamen

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Originally Posted by ngreen
I hate to call you on this but $6,000 for every high school in the country isn't unrelalistic. Just look at the money school districts use to fund athletic teams. My school's district is currently working out an 8 million dollar bond issue. Nearly half of that eight million is headed to athletic teams. This is in a school district with only one high school and aroun 700 high school students. To say they don't have 6000 dollars is untrue. To say they might not place education as high as athletics some time is true. At least how I see my district. If you can consider putting field turf in for the football team you should be able to appropriate $6,000 for a robotics team. IMHO.
I know. It's really sad. Odyssey of the Mind has the same problem here. My first year here, the district provided buses to transport the 6 or so teams going to World Finals. The next year the district began a 'pay to play' program- They payed for the membership, we provided everything else.

[For OotM, you have ~6 weeks to raise $$. It's about $750-$1,000 a person to go. (7 team members, 2 coaches, and any parents.)]

Is there a high-school sport with (inter)national championships?

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