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[Vexkingof716]

Everyone is talking about the team raising all of the money for all travel stuff. on our team the only thing the team raises money for is regionals. each kid must pay for travel and food. Now we only fly to Nats so we dont pay for the travel to the regionals we went to this year(we want to go to the hawaii one next year ) but each kid pays for the hotel food and the plane ticket. I don't think first should give free registration to anyone. if that happened i would be more jealous of of other teams. as it is hearing about teams where the people on them don't pay for travel is bad enough. we are from a very rural area. there are 7 towns going into one regional school of about 500 students. we have around 10 to 13 kids on the team. we have been able to go to 2 regionals and the championship almost every year. our biggest sponser is our school who pays for the registration, then a comunity group thing pays for another regional usually and the rest we raise ourselves. we get 1500 each year from certain companies but the rest is from the community. each student is asked to go out into the community and ask for money. most of the donations are 25 to 50 dollars each. there are only a few big donations. we are constantly asking for more.

Plus in our school because we are a newer school the other clubs all have there fundraisers like candy sales so we can't do those so we have to be really creative. Not only is our team small 7 or 8 of the studenst are from one town then there are a few from one or two other towns and i'm the only one from my town. we got the money to go to nats a few days before it was due this year. it was a lot of work but we got it.

now we are seting our goals higher for next year and going for enough money so we can go to the hawaii regional.