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The funding UTC sponsored teams receive does not actually come from individual divisions or locations of UTC (with one exception). All the funding for the numerous UTC sponsored teams actually comes from UTC Corporate. As you can probably imaging UTC corporate is not prone to the same types of cut backs as the individual divisions.
UTC has made a commitment to FIRST through their sponsorship of the New England regional. Can you imaging a UTC sponsored regional without UTC teams – what an embarrassment that would be. Can you imagine Dean’s response if he found out UTC was cutting funding.
But back to the original question, UTC Corporate provides a chunk of funding to each team a division sponsors. Obviously the divisions may kick in some additional monies but I would tend to doubt it. So basically, your concerns about UTC changing its commitment is groundless.
You should expect the same level of financial commitment from your UTC Sponsors. However, the manpower support may change based on the ever change human resources of each local sponsor
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