Does your team charge a fee to join?

[Tyler Olds]

Wave Robotics charges a $100 registration fee to join the program. Here's the breakdown:

$20 to the Recreation Department for administrative fees
$20 for team shirts (typically three t-shirts)
$60 for expenses related to student activities that we pool an account for. This includes if we need to buy a dinner for a night that a parent missed bringing dinner, buying bottled water/beverages for the team during build season, end of the year party, etc...

If a student qualifies for free and reduced, that student pays $50 and the Recreation department still takes $20 so we receive only $30 per student.

We also require students to cover their travel expenses as corporate funding (we do not receive funds from our school district) cannot be used to supplement travel through our 501c3 account. We provide team fundraising activities that go to offset total cost of travel for everyone and have individual fundraising accounts for students to offset their own travel costs.