Off-Season Event Financing

[Jacob Bendicksen]

I believe getting an official field from AndyMark (or FIRST, I forget) is about $15,000 to the West Coast. That covers shipping, insurance, etc. We split it 50/50 with 2046 this year, since they were hosting Girls' Generation Washington the week before we hosted Girls' Generation Oregon. I don't know for sure about supplies, but if you get the official FIRST field it comes with all the supplies you need (tape, zip-ties, etc.). Food-wise, we just don't worry about it - we don't supply any food, but there are quite a few restaurants close to our school, and we tell people where they are. That's a pretty easy way to save money. To cover our portion of field rental, we charge teams $200 each for Girls' Generation, $200 for Rookie Rumble, or $300 for the combo. That makes up most of the cost, and for the rest we get sponsors to donate.