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Originally Posted by Mr. Van
The issue here between "haves" and "have-nots" is far, far less about money or CNC machines. It is about mentorship. How many teams have the MENTOR / COACH / TEACHER resources to expand the season from six weeks (and a few weekends) to four months? Or to year-round?
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We're definitely a "have" team. But it's taken 11 years of hard work to get there. We invite anyone in our area to come use our practice field. We host workshops at our facility. We've spent the last four years working VERY hard to build up our parent mentor base. It's allowed us to be able to work with 6 different high schools and different school boards and paperwork, etc. It's allowed our engineers and teachers to have some "time off" when they need it. We meet year-round doing community service projects and fundraisers and a teambuilding weekend. Yes, we build two robots (when we can) so that we can have more student involvement. But I'm sure there was a time when we didn't have the resources to do that. There will always big conglomerates, big companies that have money and resources to accomplish great things. But that doesn't stop the entrepreneur from starting his/her own business and growing it.