Rural Teams - Sustainability

[#3746 mentor]

Originally Posted by Robby Unruh

We're in the same boat as you, Kath. We haven't contacted 4-H at all, but that seems like a really great idea. I'll be sure we do that sometime this summer.

We are a Rural 4-H team as well (#3746 Neco Robo Knights) and we were initially funded by a 4-H grant in 2010 and this year a FRC team was started with a JC Penny grant, since 2011 we drew up a Sponsor letter and canvassed the local area and did pretty well with it, we had various sponsor levels to allow companies to choose how much advertising on banner,robot and engineering notebook they liked, some places really get behind projects and others just give little amounts, but it all adds up! Our 4-h handles the monies and thru the leadership advisary committee, sometimes the fees associated with the competition are paid for us, since it's a new area of 4-H and they like to help get it going,they have added a competition for the state fair here, it keeps the kids interested and learning during the summer!