I wonder how Javits is going to work out this year. It would be really interesting to have all the great teams from around the country converge in the coolest city ever (no bias, I swear). It would probably be great for publicity. On the other hand, FIRST already gets a good bit of publicity as is. Also, whenever my team travels, we're always the last to leave the pits and barely see whatever city we're in.
Anyway, 694 is hoping to travel to GTR this year, in addition to making the arduous twenty minute slump from our school to Javits for our home regional
. Then it's off to Atlanta.
On an interesting fund-raising side-note, we struck a deal with our advisor that we would get to go to Nationals if we students raised the registration money entirely through our own labor. We bought boxes of M&Ms and other candy from Costco and between about fifteen of us (out of the thirty that will eventually participate), we've raised over 500 dollars in PROFIT (which means over 1000 in raw cash) in only about five days. The coolest part of it all is that however much money we raise that exceeds $5,000 gets detracted from our travel expenses! So for teams looking to go far this year, there's a great way to make some fast cash for you.