[jamie_1930]

Originally Posted by Waffles

As good of an idea as it is, it may be a little pushy in terms of the cash.

You could offer up to help build minibots and accept a donation as well.

Our team has discussed possibly connecting with all the Rochester teams to create an army of compatible minibots, such that we can all share really great minibots for say, the FLR regional.

The strategy with this not only benefits the COOPERITION bonus, but it's a great extra conenction point for our FIRST community.

It's also a nice mention that you guys may be one of the most experienced teams with FTC in the area....

The harley school of music actually is the more experienced team in the area, but we just finished our second year and have a pretty good handle on things. Also many of the people on our teams participate in FRC as well, so communication between teams should be easy. I'm sorry if the cash thing seems pushy, it's just that we don't have any sponsors, and in fact have always raised our money by selling niagra chocolate bars. There's the normal cost of competition and parts, but our school won't loan us a school bus to take us to Clarkson to compete so we have always had to shell out 1,000 dollars in order to compete (We can't carpool up because of school policy on parents driving for school trips). And I mean it's not like we're going to take the money and give every student on the team 100 bucks it's so that our team can continue to compete in our competitions.

It sounds like a good idea, but is it legal?

I didn't think about this and now that you mention it, it is illegal. Because we are not a VENDOR as defined by FIRST any parts we sell for robot use wouldn't be COTS so we wouldn't be allowed to sell them. However we may be able to write it off as selling our services, like a company that does powder coating or laser cutting or possibly just give them in exchange for a donation? Does anyone have any idea how we could get around this?