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No matter what you do you always have to give your school credit even if they don't give you money. Because w/ all the budget cuts its hard to find money anywhere. Even if all they give you is a Dean's Excuse so you can skip school for the competitions they are still a mentor and deserve to have there name as one of your sponsors. Also it will help if they ever do get money so you can tell them they officially sponsor you and you need cash.
Thats the thing, they dont give us a deans excuse to go to competition etc. We have to ask each prof. individually for permission to miss class, sometimes we dont get it.

As far as sponsoring is concerned, we only have our colleges name on the robot. We mention that we are from Cal Poly, but do not say they sponsored the team, as that would not be entirely true. We give them credit for having us as students attending their college, as weird as that may seem.

We are trying to attain funding from the school, but it is not as easy here as it was previously in high schools. I had an easier time asking AMD for $5000 than i did asking my college for $500.

As far as the high school students building the robot, i think that is very important. If you simply hand the students a robot and teach them to drive it, they learn very little. You have to at least have them witness the building and design process...at least!! I would even suggest trying to have them organize the team themselves, design the robot themselves, and fabricate the parts as best they can, seeking help from you each step along the way. That way they are alot more proud of their final creation.
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