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Originally Posted by Joe Johnson
I can't speak to all the Delphi teams, but as to ChiefDelphi, Delphi has been cutting back on the support given for a number of years.
Joe J.
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The same is true with the TechnoKats. This coming year will be our 15th in FIRST, and our Delphi expenses will be the lowest ever. However, as Joe suggests above, this is nothing new. Each year, our budget is decreased and this year's planned decrease follows this trend. Our current budget is less than 1/4 the size of our original Delphi cost in '92. Three things have happened to significantly decrease our team costs since our first year:
1. We moved robot construction out of Delphi's UAW shop and into our "team shop". This started to happen in 1995 and was completed in 1999. Before then, many skilled tradesmen were working on the contruction of the robot, therefore charging their project time to the account set up for the team.
2. FIRST Championships moved from Walt Disney World. Our team saved $15k (per year) when FIRST moved the Championships from Epcot to Houston (and now Atlanta).
3. FIRST added a local regional (Boilermaker Regional), saving us $3k in hotel costs.
Andy B.