Team 348 NEEDS your help

[Mike Starke]

Originally Posted by Joohoo

one crazy way 340 made money was by having a bowl-a-thon having people "sponsor" you X cents per pin in three games.

It was a ton of fun and we made a good amount of money

This is true! i only got 3 sponsors last year, and i made ~80 dollars. I would strongly encourage you guys to consider this. This is an easy way to make money. Most people are willing to donate. And like John said, it's a ton of fun. A lot of fundraisers aren't very fun to do, but bowling is an awesome way to raise money! You wont know until you try! It's also very good for team building, especially right before the season! Talk with a local bowling alley, to see if they can cut you a deal, for shoes and lane rental.

[KelliV]

Here are my fundraising ideas from both college and high school.
1) It is Christmas time, pass out fliers that you will put up christmas lights for some cash ( I live in a small ranch style house and would pay someone probably 20/30 dollars to put up my lights)

2) Put a penny jug near your vending machine. Like one of those Hinckley and Schmidt oversized water jugs. Put a sign like "Put those Pesky Pennies to good use, support your robotics team!" or "tired of picking through pennies? Put them to good use, sponser your robotics team!" "These machines won't take your pennies but we will! Support robotics"

3) Run Concessions, wether it be at your high school basketball game or a youth sporting event, people like food... you can make some great profits... I know our debate team ran concessions for the speech regional at our school.

4) Bag at IKEA. IKEA doesn't have baggers, but they let local groups come in and bag for tips. We did this in cheerleading and made a bunch of money.

5) BAKE SALES! Bake sales are amazing, they are cheaper than vending machines and can be held anywhere... Talk to your local banks, stand in their lobbies with baked goods... people always buy things when they have money.

6) Ask for donations for Christmas instead of presents. "All I want for Christmas is a couple of bucks for my Robotics team to go to regionals" Show off some video and a picture of you and your robots friends and you should be good to go.