[Mike Norton]

We were in the same spot last year. We won the Florida regional and had 3 days to come up with the funds. what we did was only send 5 kids and one adult. this cost us $10,000 to do this. We where coming from MA.

We had one team pay for our 2 rooms and a team gave us money. Plus we had some companies give us some cash. so in two days we did raise $10,000 half of the money was to pay FIRST for the national. I think it might be hard to raise $35,000. But with the right help you never know. Don't give up, you never know who will help you out. The nationals are worth it if you have never been.