[Penny]

Pamela --

Beach Bot has done a spaghetti dinner for the past 3 years. Last year we earned $2000 from it -- not too bad for a team with only 12 students!

Our dinner this year is Monday, November 5 -- want to come? We're a church-sponsored school, so we hold the dinner in the church's main auditorium. This year we are charging $3 for children under 10 and $6 for everyone else. We try to keep prices reasonable because we have a lot of large families and single parent families in our church. We're also trying a special family package of $24.00 this year.

Local restaurants donate most of the food, so almost all of the ticket price is profit. Each family provides home-baked desserts to cap off the evening. Last year we earned additional money by raffling off a donated DirecTV satellite system. This year we weren't able to locate a nice prize to raffle.

One year when Beach Bot had a basket, we did have the robot bringing bread to the tables. We usually have a short demo, show some videotape footage of previous competitions, and have team promotional literature on the tables. We serve continously from 6:00 to 8:30, so we try to fill each space at least 2 times.

It's been a great money-maker for us; hope it works for you too!

Penny Ross
Team #330