[PsychoPhil]

Well, yeah, we also sold raffle tickets ($1 a piece) in front of supermarket and raffeled off prices that we got donated (made about $500 I believe). We sold space on our T-shirts and so on, we had a fundraising dinner (dinner brought like $800) and we wrote hundreds of letters to companies but this didn't seem to work too well....

We got our money together for two regionals somehow (in NJ we slept at the house of a relative of a team member), I still don't know where it came from...

-->I think this is a thing we all could work on: How about teams near the competition site hosting some space for teams that don't have too much money, maybe a local gym or something...<--


But all this is so expensive that all that is nothing compared to what you really need...
There's $5000 entry fee, then u need $4000 per regional and another $4000 for the nationals. The robot has to be build and shipped and the team has to stay somewhere during competitions.

That adds easily up to $25,000 -$35,000 or more for a team of 20 people for 2 regionals and the nationals...
Where do teams get that kind of money from???????????
I'd really like to know...
so long, Phil