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Re: Fundraising dilemma
While this has not been done for our FIRST team, this is what our Technology and Engineering Club (Which our FIRST team is a part of) does when it comes to National's time for TSA. What we do is go to the school district administration first, telling them of our achievements and asking for any support that they can possibly give us to go to competition. Once we ask for their assistance, we use money from our general funds to help allievate costs for students. In the end, the students have to pay a few hundred each for travel and accomadation expenses. It's a lot better then putting the full cost on the student, but in the end everybody is going to have to pay something.
Fundraising as much as you can is always helpful, and go out to parents and others in the community explaining your situation to see if they can help out in any way possible.
Good Luck!
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