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I hear all of this about people only caring about walt disney world and stuff and maybe if a team's having a problem about people only getting to go to nationals, then maybe they could present themself in a better way.

This is just from my perspective but we don't glorify nationals that much. This year my team qualifies since we're an odd team but we are only going if the team earns its way there. Sure, the ambience of being surrounded by hundreds of teams is awesome but our team would rather spend the extra money getting to know more teams intimately at a regional or helping another team. For all the info meetings where we recruit new members, walt disney world was not mentioned once and I think the only regional we even talked about was just the one we went to in LA. We draw enough people in on the basis of a love for engineering or animation or the business aspect (not as much, but they got me).

Also on our team you have to earn your way to travel and be funded by the team. Basically the team pays for the hard working, committed, and crucial members of the team to go. Its a really really tough desicion (that grrr...our advisor made me make, I still resent him) but it makes sense to me. If people want to travel too they can pay their own way otherwise they can get the regional experience by driving 1/2 hour to the LA regional. But there's no way anyone on our team is getting a free trip for not working.

I only see one problem of apathy on our team and it comes from those students who want to add something else to their college application. Is this a problem with any other teams? Sometimes we luck out and they're drawn based on the fact that it looks good on the application but they end up doing some amazing work, but there's just some people who just don't do anything, so annoying!
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