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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
I think you might have an easier path if you are able to start several teams all at once, and hold a local regional there
from the persepective of the goals of FIRST, you will get more bang for the buck if you have several teams and a local regional (reaching maybe 500 students of more) than you would if you only have one team, and spend all that money to fly the whole team to an event in the US.
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This is a good point. You may try to talk to the local school board(s) at a meeting and present them with FIRST. Provide pictures and videos if possible. You can even use Israel as an example, seeing that there are 12 new teams there this year. The Israeli teams (and the regional there) are all sponsored by the Israeli Branch of GM. I know that there is an Australian branch of GM too, and they might be willing to help if they know how much help their partners are giving to teams in the US, Canada, and Israel. If not them, there are probably other companies as you mentioned that you can seek help from.
Just my $.02