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Posted by Matt Leese at 05/08/2001 1:44 PM EST


College Student on team #73, Tigerbolt, from Edison Technical HS and Alstom & Fiber Technologies & RIT.


In Reply to: College-sponsored teams
Posted by Patrick Dingle on 05/07/2001 3:50 PM EST:



RIT in the past has been known to sponsor FIRST very
well. I was told they paid for RIT students travel
to Florida along with providing ample machine shop
time. This was also while Harris/RF was the sponsor
and Harris provided a lot of sponsorship also. This
year, RIT managed to come up with about $4000 on very
short notice (took them about a week, about
mid-February). We're more or less locked out of the
machine shop because Formula 1 team has precedence.
We do have access to machining done in the CNC shop
however (offer came too late to use it this year).
We're trying to find more funding and given more lead
time we figure we'll have a better shot at it but
unfortunately budgets have already been submitted for
the next fiscal year. Really, I think the best way
to go about finding fundingg is to get a faculty
"champion." Basically, someone who's willing to go
out there and help you get money. Basically, that's
how we got the money we did this year and the money
were hoping for next year. Otherwise, just ask
anybody who's willing to listen.

Matt