My School = STUPID

[Dan Richardson]

Originally posted by Mark Hamilton
I find it interesting you mention us. Just to clear things up, the school itself gives us almost no support. Our money comes from our sponsor Motorola (and they have far less to give then you might think), a number of smaller sponsors we have gotten, and our own pockets. UCF was our first regional and the only one we are taking our entire team too. It cost roughly $250 per person to go. If we hadn't qualified for Nat's there the chances of us getting to go to nationals would have been very slim. Only 8 members from our team will be attending nationals this year due to the expense and short amount of time available. We are going at all because of a lot of hard work. Everyone should consider themselves lucky to be part of FIRST. Our mentors and sponsors didn't have a FIRST program. Do the best you can with what you've got.

Then I personally think your team needs to talk a little funding and priority... Right now if we go to nats ( which we aren't ) it would cost us 450, but this is besides the point

Team 108 gets 10k just for scouting alone ( I was talking to your mentor who buys all the equipment, he decided to critisize our program a little, I thought it was a little pompous but I let it slide ). So they can buy new servers for live broadcast. You also did get sent to 2 regionals I understand the whole team doesn't get to go tho, But if they are rippin the team, because they want to buy higher tech video feed equipment.. I don't know if I nesc agree with that. I'm just biased, because as a 3 year member of my team, I can't afford to pay for these things, I always either have to do my own fundraising so I can go on these trips.

Money Priorities frusrate me, I wish it grew on trees but this is not the case. Ughh excuse my rants