Being on our team is free. Students that participate regularly are pretty much guaranteed to be able to attend our local regional since we travel by school bus.
To travel to our away regional / Championships, the student have a list of "Achievements" to accomplish. You can find these on our website -
http://www.penfieldrobotics.com/team/achieve.php All students pay a relatively small deposit for the trip to indicate committment. For the students who complete all the achievements, their travel costs will be covered. Depending on the success of the fundraising efforts, other students may have a portion of their travel costs covered based on the proportion of achievements that are completed. Financial hardship may be taken into consideration on the deposit. Since we consider the achievements attainable by all of the students, if you don't have money to pay for trips then you need to be proactive in getting the achievements done.