Team 95 Hard At Work - 2015

[JamesCH95]

Originally Posted by Kevin Leonard

What happened? I noticed that the division scouting spreadhseet (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...hC0/edit#gid=0) had you in Carson, and I got excited, but you weren't on TBA or FIRST's website as attending championships.
I then checked here: (http://frc-districtrankings.usfirst.org/NE), and it seems to say you declined the championship invite!

I was disappointed to hear you weren't coming to champs (and couldn't be a total steal in the 4th round as a capper on an awesome alliance ).

Lack of money and time happened, unfortunately.

Our team is about 13 students, 5 technical mentors, and 4-6 non-technical mentors. None of the three on our programming crew could make St. Louis, I and 3 other technical mentors were out of vacation time, none of the non-technical mentors could make it, and we didn't have the money reserves to put up $5k right away.

We saw this coming several weeks ago, but we had a hard time scraping together registration for District Champs and had no gas in the tank left over to get the $15k we needed for a trip to Worlds! We have lost a significant portion (around 40-50%) of our sponsorship backing since our 2013 season; we're still feeling the sting of the 2013 federal budget sequestration crisis. We are continuing to work hard to expand our sponsor base, but it does take time to develop good sponsor relationships and to recover what we lost.

We hope to make it to worlds again in the next year or two, but it just was not in the cards this year unfortunately.