Thread: What Does "Our Team Really Needs Funding" Mean To You?
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Unread 02-12-2010, 21:02
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Re: What Does "Our Team Really Needs Funding" Mean To You?
Now, my mentor was and still is very hesitant about fundraising at our school mostly due to ASB. Our ASB has to accept our request to fundraise and they pocket some of the money (not sure on percentages). For that sole reason, he does not want to fundraise because he does not want money getting mixed in with the ASB's. We are currently at a situation that we have enough for 1 regional, but not yet for the 2nd we always wanted. So we have 2 choices, raise barely enough money for the 2nd regional and have minimal amount of money or just go to one and have a lot for the robot.

I heard last year my mentor literally went up to our (now retired) principal and asked for $5000 just in case we don't get enough money to even sign up. Fortunately, he did find that much money and just handed back her the money.


I really suggested some ideas to fund raise with, but apparently my mentor really hates asking for money or even dealing with money (I totally understand him, I am like that too...) So we never get to do them. Some how he manages to get 5k and extra every year though...

In all honesty, I do not understand why FIRST needs all this money from individual teams. How much does it to actually run an individual regional?
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