What is the biggest problem faced by FIRST teams?

[LightWaves1636]

I would have to say keeping the program runnning in general. It's hard to start the program at your school or whatever but I think it's harder to maintain and keep the program running because of sponsors/funding and school adminstration or whatever fighting against or for it. I say sponsors because they're putting a lot of money in and sometimes they expect results out of the team because I know some sponsors that don't feel right about funding a team that would just fail. School administration because they expect results as well. I know some teams that have to win some kind of award next season in order to have that kind of proof saying that the team is not in operation to fail but to succeed and bring back something as proof. Unfortunately for my team, two trophies(Colorado Regional and General Motors Industrial Design) didn't outweigh other reasons.