YMTC - Manufacturing

[Taylor]

Originally Posted by KenWittlief

I hope there are not too many teams who cannot afford to spend the allowable amount on their robots - what is the cap these days? $3.5k?

I think you'd be surprised. We have (as compared to some other FIRST teams) a pretty limited budget - $19K this past season. We were faced with the choice of using the money we did have for the robot or to enter another regional. We decided that it would be not only good exposure for our team adn its members, but in the spirit of FIRST, to go to both Boilermaker and W.Mich. So subtract $10k for registration and KOP, $3.5k for charter bus, $2k for room & board, and $2.5k for tools and supplies - not much left over for the bot itself.
But we still had fun! And the completely student-designed, student-built robot was a source of more pride for the team members than perhaps anything else they'd done in their lives.

Sorry, off-topic. I'll stop now.