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Originally Posted by Fruity Pebbles
I'm pretty sure that if the price was right (my team always seems to be low on money) that my team would probably try and do it . Or we could team up with one or several of the other local teams (such as 1062, 1390, 1543, 1604 which are all in the same school district.).
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Rather than looking at this as a $4000 money drop that you'll never get back, try to see it as a long term investment.
Say Team "Happy Robot" decides to buy this balldrop kit. They go to their Chamber of Commerce and make a presentation about their team and what they do, and invite the members to an event. The group is impressed and agrees to fund the hardware with the agreement that Happy Robot will arrange everything and that it will be safe and within city laws.
As the year goes on and New Year comes, a member of the team that was helping run the ball drop is approached by a man whose family is extremely impressed by what the team has done. This man owns a successful engineering firm, and decides to contribute some funding, maybe $500 or so. The team invites the same man to an open house around Kickoff.
The man attends with some good friends, who are impressed by the team and tell their friends, who remember seeing the ball drop and hearing advertising. Somebody offers $1000, somebody else $2000...over the years community support builds up.
Yes, there are costs. No, you may not get this much monetary help, I'm just suggesting a situation where effective advertising and presentation could really help everything out.
