Starting a team in Muncie, IN for Ball State University and the Indiana Academy

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I figure that since it's been what seems like years since this has been updated that it would be nice to give everyone an update on what's going on with #1020 - the Indiana Prank Monkeys.

We're formed, registered, and ready to compete when the game releases. All of the members are scattered throughout Indiana on their x-mas break (btw, Merry Christmas to all). We have a team full of people on edge to see the new game and several will attend the kick-off in Kokomo. We received the NASA grant (thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you) as well as funds from others and some fund raising**.

We are well on our way to affording the necessary items, but we need more money of course! As always, if anyone has any tips that you think there's a chance we haven't heard of - let us know!

As for the resources of our team, we have recently secured space for building and testing as well as the sponsorship from Delaware Machinery, located here in Muncie, IN.

We're registered to compete in March at St. Louis. Currently we are working on figuring out how to get people to the event! This is another problem due to the lack of funding - so if you know of a cheap bus company or something like that, it would be most helpful!

**fund raising - We got this idea from another team, and it worked great: We sold duct tape (at the super high mark up of $1 a yard) to students while 3 of their most beloved teachers stood on chairs against the walls of our lounge. We sold 15 rolls of duct tape and managed to get 2 of the teachers to stay for a few seconds. As for the third... it took several people to pull him from the wall

How's that for an update? I can't wait for the game to come out. All this talk of how different the game is has me itching to see it. What could be so shocking? (There's another forum for this, so please don't reply about it here!)

BTW - To clear up the confusion about who's here doing what:
Shrutish and I spent a lot of time working with other students here at the Academy to lead up to forming a team this year with the help of Neil Dantum of Anderson, Shane O. and Amanda M. from Hammond, BSU, and teachers at the Academy. Now we've got about 40 people on the team and things are going pretty great!