[joeweber]

Money is the top goal, with out it we can not operate. We are lucky enough to get sponsored for one event. I can not imagine what its like to go to a second event or a third let alone the travel expences. We can dig up enough for the robot thanks to FIRST putting so much of the drive system in the kit of parts. It can be trouble getting students but it depends on your goal of how many and what quality of students you want. If you are resourceful you can find the students, maybe look outside your district to nearby schools or local home school students. Invit the gear heads in to try it (some times they don't want to be seen with us geeks) if they got tast of what its about they might be interested. After years of being in the program, the FIRST program itself becomes easy to run it still always comes down to money.