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Originally Posted by sanddrag
Do they charge for parking at your regional event(s)? If so, how much. At SoCal, it was $8 to park for each day.
If you ask me, charging for parking at a FIRST regional event is just plain wrong. Nobody has money and everybody needs money. First of all, the thing is free to get into. Second, why should a parent have to pay to come see their student competing? That arena is full of people who will one day make the world a better place. The arena is also full of spectators who hope these people will one day make the world a better place. Why must we pay to park to make the world a better place?
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Sanddrag,
Students pay to park their cars at San Jose state, why should we
be any different. FIRST does not charge for tickets at the venue:
the Teams entrance fees, and lots of donations to first, pay for that.
Use of the venue means use of the parking and use of the food services
at the venue. It is not like you are forced to pay the venue food prices
for food if you don't want to. You can always take public transportation
to the venue if you don't want to park a car. You can have water in
bottles and that is all you need to drink. You can have food in your
car outside of the venue and you can scurry there to eat. Try canned
tuna and sardines, its a survivalists mainstay.
They let us eat our food at the table near the entrance door in the
SanJose regional and we were in hog heaven. We did not have to
stand out in the rain to eat. What more could a crazy robotics mentor
want?