I don't believe that my team has ever had a fee to be on the team. To go to the competitions the students have to be at the meetings (most of them, 100% participation is not required, but never turned down
) and we do Little Caesars Student appreciation where we get a certain percentage of what they sell of the medium pizza's that we help make. That is one of our big fund raisers, it works really well also. Our sponsors help pay for the rest, along with other fund raisers to get the students to go to the comp. and not kill their wallets.