[kawelch]

Most the members of our team can't afford to buy school lunch, nevermind travel to competition. If the team can't pay for the team to go... the team doesn't go. We have guidelines on how many fundraising activities you must participate in in order to be eligibile to travel. If we made the students come up with the cost of travel... there would be no team. Luckily there should be a KC regional beginning next year so this will be a much less expensive for us.