Mentors: How does your company support you?

[AshWalker]

My company will do a "matching time grant" where if you donate 40 hours of your time to a non profit they will donate money given enough paperwork. With 4 people mentoring the team from the same company, this adds up to a good bit of money.

Past that, hope your boss lets you flex hours to leave early for build days (and doesn't mind that sleep deprived look for 6 weeks), and you have enough vacation time saved up for regionals. I try and bring back candy and other fun things from regionals and championship as bribes so they keep letting me go. So far I've pulled it off for 3 years without a fight.

We have been able to swing some of the items going to surplus/scrap to be able to go to the team as well.