So this year is my teams' rookie year, and we are the only rookie team participating in our regional, guaranteeing that we will receive the Rookie All Star award.
We have talked about the possibility of attending the finals, and decided that would be very beneficial to our FIRST program in future years. However, we have very little money left in our budget left (~3k) for Atlanta seeing as we weren't planning on attending this early in our "career". As of this moment, the majority of our money has come form a state grant, and a few smaller sponsors. My questions were,
-If your team has attended the finals before, approximately how much money did it cost you (or your sponsor
), including entry? Also, include how many people attended in that budget.
-If anyone had any fundraiser ideas that their team has used successfully?
So far our team is going to petition the schoolboard for more money since sports teams get money to goto Sates and other things. We are also going to try to find more sponsorships in any amount possible.
Hopefully we will see some of you in Atlanta!