Michigan vs New Hampshire

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Originally Posted by GaryV1188

There were 100 FIRST teams from Michigan this year. Since some teams have members from multiple schools, perhaps as many as 150 schools may have been involved.

The MHSAA (Sports) website lists 763 high schools in the state. So probably slightly less 20% of the the schools have a FIRST team. There's a few schools don't have any sports teams, but not enough to significantly alter the calculations.

$2M divided by 763 schools comes up to about $2600 per school. Not a sum to sneeze at, but not enough to fund FIRST teams popping up all over the place.

If the appropriation goes through, I suspect that the funds won't be divvied up to individual teams. Rather it will go in grants to special projects - some may be for individual teams, others may be to offset other costs, or to promote FIRST and technology in general. That's not to say it won't help - it will. It's just not the windfall that $2,000,000.00 seems to be.

From what I heard when Dean spoke, there were 555 teams splitting the money and each would get enough to pay for their regional enterance fee. Hmm...who knows. It's something we'll have to wait on I think for accurate information.