Dirty Birds need advice

[DirtyBird213]

The Dirty Birds need your help! On Monday December 1, 2003 we lost our corporate sponsors. The 2 companies have been sponsoring us for the last 6 years with financial and engineer help. The companies cited that they felt our school district did not show enough support to our team. We feel this is bogus, as we get a lot of support from our school, the problem is that they wanted a classroom dedicated to FIRST, Robotics to be integrated into the curriculum, and they felt the code of conduct that is expected from students was not up to their standards.
We are looking for advice from teams as to how many of you have all of the stuff that I listed above. We think these cmpanies are asking for stuff that really cannot be done.
We as a team were stunned by this considering they waited to tell us 4 days before payment was due to compete that they wouldn't be paying our registration fees. But don't worry, our school (who they felt wasn't supportive) helped us secure money for the registration, we just have to do a lot more fundraising then we planned.
We are a team that will be building a robot without any mentors (a few parents stepped up and are going to help), and wanted to know if any of you out there have any advice for us on how to build with only students and a school. We will be participating in the BAE regional.
Thanks for listening, and please pass on any advice you have for us.