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Our budget for years without trying to go to championchips, we shoot for about $20 000 (two regionals) and then this year, we're trying to raise enough money to go, it's about $30 000. We're about halfway there now but in past years, we've started the year in debt about two years ago and so that was tough to recover from.

a. students pay a $135 registration fee ($100 goes to competition registration)
b. students pay about $100 for away competitions for travel and hotel (championships is a different story but none of us know yet because we haven't gone because of money in 3 years) and for local stuff, no money needed
c. travel expenses are covered by students themselves and only expenses for advisors are covered by the team
d.to raise money, we sell food at school, scrip (which we started this year), write grant letters and ask for donations from parents.