Free Ride

[John Gutmann]

Originally Posted by Tottanka

Well Well Well...
I'ts easy for you guys to say it, but we as an Israeli team need a lot of money to go to Nats...
It comes out like this:
Per Student: 1000$ per flight ticket, 150$ hotel, 100$ additional transportaion and food, 40$ for a Visa to the U.S

That is a total of 1290$ per student...
lets say that we need a human player, 2 drivers a coach and 2 mentors as a Minimum for taht travel...

We are now standig at 7740$

Now for the bot shipping its an additional 300$

total of: 8140$ for a team of 6 members.

Our sponsor wont give us anymore money, and we dont expact it to. Its 7500$ spent on the building + 1 regional is more then we expact.

As a city where the average sallery per person is 3000NIS per month, which is 26,000 NIS per year = 6900$ per year, we cant possibly expact to gather more then a 1000$ from good civilians. Say sponsors give us 2 more G's and schools gives 2 more G's we are now at 5.

And now the rest of the money is going to be spent by team mebers bank accounts. I really dont think that this is what FIRST is about, it snot about wasting your own money on that.
FIRST should not give us money, but it should serioulsy help teams from UK, Netherlans, Brazil and Israel (am i forgeting a country?) cross the sea and particiapte in the great event in Georgia.

Have you contacted any teams here in America? I am sure they would love to try to help out.

-John