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View Poll Results: Does your team have sufficient funding to do everything it wants to this year?
yes 34 26.15%
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Unread 28-02-2006, 11:28
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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.
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Unread 28-02-2006, 13:07
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Re: !Poll! Difficulty with funding

This is a tough question! We don't have enough to do everything we might want to do, but we have enough money to do everything we have to do (register, build and ship the bot, get our volunteer mentors to competitions.) Students have to cover their own travel expenses, which discourages some from participating, and build season meals are brought in by team families (Yum!) It has taken about six years to build up a stable base of contributions, but we now are fairly confident that we will be able to cover the basics.
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Re: !Poll! Difficulty with funding

Well, seeing that I work for our major sponsor I will have to say that we are generously funded compared to many teams. But, you asked if we are able to do "everything we want". Well, there will always be more things that I would like to do.
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Re: !Poll! Difficulty with funding

We had just enough money for the registration and to build our robot with no money left over for ANYTHING. We had to use certian alternative parts in a few cases because we couldn't afford what we wanted.

Ideally we would have money for the robot, 2 regionals and a little money for misc things such as a pit hut.
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Re: !Poll! Difficulty with funding

We do pretty good every year with funding...we sell raffle tickets every year for the end of the year party, we usually sell fanny may every year, and kripy creme donuts every eyar at the homecoming football game and at the school.
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Unread 01-03-2006, 10:26
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Re: !Poll! Difficulty with funding

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we only raised like 25k this year we were shooting for more so we dont have to pay anything but u no wat ever
Heh. In the three years of its existence, our team has raised a total of about $23,000. I still have an envelope of receipts from 2005 for which I will never be reimbursed. Students, don't forget that your mentors may be contributing more than their time.
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Re: !Poll! Difficulty with funding

Chuck has an unbelieable budget. This year we managed to build a robot, attend two regionals, and give a free ride to all our students. All this from a very modest amount. When I saw the numbers one day, I just went 'Wow'. I'm very impressed by it, and it gives me hope that the team I'm starting will be able to do the same.

Division by Zero on the other hand I know got hit by a Clarkson budget cut. After last season and knowing the great fokes they are, I feel really sad for 'em.
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Re: !Poll! Difficulty with funding

no team is ever completely satisfied with their budget and if they are chances are they are sharing it and wish they had more to share. So I don't believe any team is truly satisfied.
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Re: !Poll! Difficulty with funding

The Robocats, Team 379, raise over $20,000 a year in fundraising (each team member must raise $500, or pay, in order to attend the 3 competitions we enter each year). We fundraise 12 months a year!

We also write grants and local small businesses/clubs are recruited to donate (ranging from $25 to $1,200). We have no corporate sponsor now, although we did have GM Lordstown for our first 3 years ($5,000, 3 employees - not engineers - and a van for competition transportation of tools).

Our school pays only about $3000 for advisor stipends (we even pay for our buses and bus driver hotel room/food and subs to cover the two school advisors). We have about 25 team members.

Every year we plan to attend 2 local regionals (CLE, where we don't spend the night, even thought its 90 minutes away) and PIT or MI (we don't stay in PIT either) and one "big" trip - nationals or another regional where we go a day earlier to tour. CLE & PIT in the same week hurt us this year! Students (and advisors & community volunteer mentors), even if they meet the $500 fundraising goal, still pay for their food & admission to any "tours" we go on.

Regarding "canceling" a regional to attend Nationals if you qualify - we tried to cancel Toronto two years ago after we won the CLE Chairman's Award, but we not permitted to do so. Rather than loose the registration fee, we left home at 2 a.m. TH to get to competition with, I think, 6 students and 2 advisors and competed (and made it to semi-finals). We did manage to raise enough to get to Atlanta, but it wasn't easy!

Maybe FIRST can find a way to be more flexible in the future. It cost us about $10,000 to attend nationals with 16 students! (Reg. fee, hotel, air fare - cheaper to fly than take a bus!). Canceling the Toronto trip and getting our $5000 registration fee back would have been helpful.

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