!Poll! Difficulty with funding

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This year we plan to attend 3 regoinals (Great Lakes, Midwest, and West Michigan). We hope we do good in our first two so we can cancel going to West Michigan and go to Nationals instead. Although we would like to go to Atlanta again we would have to get more funding since we have only budgeted for those regionals. If we did get to go to Atanta then we would have to raise about $250-$300 more then we planned on. As for kids paying for trips we each have to pay for our trips we go on, luckily to go on 3 trips it is only costing us about $515 for each student. We do many team fundraisers like candy sale in school, cookie dough, bowling fundraiser/ bowl-a-thon, and raffle tickets. We try to find some local businesses to help us but it is very hard to find help. After loosing our machine shop and one of our 2 main sponsors we had to pay for all the materials we needed and all the labor for the precision things to get done. Hopefully by the end of season we will have another sponsor, and be able to go to Nationals if we qualify.

I remeber in 2004 we won in Los Angeles with team 69 and 980, in which we qualified for nationals, we raised enough money for payment and students to travel in less then 4 weeks.