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Originally Posted by jrmarenda
Our rookie team (1887) happened to be a member of the winning alliance at the Portland Regional which qualified us for the championship in Atlanta. The problem is, we never imagined that this would happen and have less than $1000 left in our budget. We decided to ship the robot to nationals but have no idea how we will raise the money we need.
I am sure that this happens to teams every year. How do people go about getting thousands of dollars in a matter of days? Do you require the students to pay for their own trip? Even so, we still need to raise the money for registration and shipping. If any of you have been in this situation, please give me some pointers as soon as possible.
I have searched and read a lot of the posts concerning fundraising, but most of them are operating under the assumption that you have months to plan, not weeks. We were fortunate enough to have done this during the first week of regionals therefore giving us more time, but the task is still daunting to say the least.
Even if you personally have never faced this and you know a team that has faced it, let me know how I can contact that team. Thank you.
On a similar note, we would like to give the cheesy poofs a huge thank you for their help this weekend. Even before choosing us as your alliance partner, we had the benefit of being pitted next door to you. All of you were more than willing to help us and loan us the various tools and supplies that we had neglected to bring. There is absolutely no way that we would be in this situation if it was not for you. Good luck at Silicon Valley and we'll see you in Atlanta
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Take your story to the local media and sell how this will not only help the future of the kids on your team and school but for the whole area and get local big business to get behind the team and help out (not only for the now but for the future as well). The worst thing they can say is no.