[Racer26]

1075 has always been a 'poor' team as far as funding, certainly not on the engineering front though...

Students have always paid somewhere on the order of ~$200 for a regional weekend.

When I graduated high school and became a mentor to the team, particularly in the 2007 and 2008 seasons, the team picked up the tab for my hotel room, but not for my food, and whatever else. I thought it was fair repayment for my time and effort (blood, sweat and tears too), and I think it was sort of massaged into the costs of everyone else (being that I'm the only non-teacher mentor, this didnt add much to anyones costs.)