I don't have anything to say that hasn't been already, but 1523 recently did a presentation for our SAC committee. We only had about five minutes and showed the Inventor model of our robot, a 1/3 scale version that drives around and shoots similarly to the real one, and played a video that we produced just for that meeting to help get funding.
We went in asking for $1000 (we needed $2500 for busses to nationals) and said that we need whatever they can give... we went out with $1500
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Here is the video we played:
http://marsbot.org/node/276
Good luck,
Tim