!Poll! Difficulty with funding

[KTorak]

Originally Posted by Stuart

unfortunatly this year team 1745 is so short on funds(our total buget for this year was about $8k) that we are haveing to ask the students to pay the difference to travil to our regional. . .so yeah that sucks

I hate to tell you this, but most students pay for everything. On 1023, each student is responsible for any/all travel costs. This includes air fare/gas, hotel room(s), meals, etc.

1023 manages to get enough to attend one regional (GLR - no over night stay or anything) and to attend Championships. Our main sponsor donates $2500 in the beginning, and another $2500 between GLR and ATL (La-z-Boy) and we have many others that donate around $500 and some lesser donations. After that, it's up to use to fundraise...in which we usually get around $3-4k a year. Luckily, we encounter very little robot build expenses because Midwest Fluid Power donates all of our materials for free (80/20, etc).