[dhitchco]

Anish,

take a deep breath and hang in there.

Your team is located in Alexandria VA just outside of Washington DC correct? The first thing to do is to focus your story/plight on those teams in your immediate geographical area.

Your next major step is to start recruiting freshman and sophomore students to your team for next year (regardless of your money or build location situation). You need team members first!

Once you have re-kindled a team, go out and fund-raise; even if it's just doing car washes! You need to get your "story" out there even more than raising actual cash. There may be some philanthropist in your area that will cough-up the warehouse space and/or money, but only if your story is well-publiscized. Have your parents spread the word through their friends; make up a solicitation tri-fold brochure that they can pass-around.

Speaking of build space; it's not a HIGH priority this time of the year, but scout around and build a database of commercial real estate brokers that own/manage small shopping malls. You may be able to "borrow" a store next January-March to do your build/practice. In the mean time, get out there and demo your robot to every social group you can think of.

It'll be OK.....