Thread: Supported by school or sponsor?
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Unread 02-03-2008, 12:43
DeAnnaC DeAnnaC is offline
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Re: Supported by school or sponsor?
We are a community based team formed thru a non-profit - no schools sponsor us. We have kids from 6 different high schools from all over the county and alot of homeschooled kids.

We do our own funding/fundraisers and purchase our own equipment. We currently have a table top drill press and a table top bandsaw, the rest of our tools are handtools. The computers we have will not run any of the software that comes in the KOP, but hopefully we can do something about that in the off season as the animation team is really coming together and needs stable, available machines to work with year round.

The location we meet at is donated as well and we move about every 10 months to a new spot. Some of our kids drive 45 min each way (the rest of us it's 25 mins) to nightly meetings during build season, weekly during the off season. We also attend fundraisers for other non-profits, parades and community events about every 2nd or 3rd weekend during the off season, so we stay busy year round.

We have no teachers, our mentors are a mix of people and include some parents.
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