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Re: What is the biggest problem faced by FIRST teams?
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Money. Never enough.

The perception is that this is a school program and the schools should be paying for it. We do have terrific sponsors, but it does not cover the costs.

ill second that, just the entry cost for the competitions is outragous, if we could either find a way for that to go down or the amount of money that sponsors are giving to go up, we would be set.
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Re: What is the biggest problem faced by FIRST teams?
No matter how much money you have.... you never have enough.... human nature.
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Re: What is the biggest problem faced by FIRST teams?
yah money...or space.
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Re: What is the biggest problem faced by FIRST teams?
i agree with money...we have an excellent sponsor (www.netmedia.com) and though we were ok but then unexpected shipping fees, tournament costs, etc....
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