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Originally Posted by Jane
Can anyone expand on this a little bit? If the team is limited in the amount of students/team members that can travel because of costs, how are the costs impeding the amount who can travel? Can you be more specific?
Jane
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In past years any student that meets the requirements to be part of the team is eligible to travel to the Championship event. We only attend 2 events per year, the FLRC (10 minutes from school) & Championship. The past 2 years we have brought over 45 students to Atlanta. 3 years ago we brought 38.
Our sponsor pays for all event and travel expenses. Last year the students were asked to put down a non-refundable deposit to travel. (Each of the 2 previous years we had students back out at the last minute for less than good reasons.) To travel to Atlanta from Rochester is almost $900 per student. Most of our budget was Atlanta.
We are trying something new this year. Everyone of our students goes to the local event, veterans & rookies. Just the veterans on 340 travel to Atlanta. At this point we have 23ish students on 340 and about 30 rookies. If the rookies qualify we will see about bringing a small group of them to drive the robot.
Overall this should save us about $10,000 this year... Enough to fund a second team.
