Team fee?

[Viper37]

Originally Posted by A_Reed

Team 48 has a team fee system, typically around $150. But we also give the students an opportunity to work off the fee by encouraging fund raising, i.e. every x dollars raised in profit = y dollars off of the individual's fee(typically not a 1:1 Ratio). allot of students end up not having to pay a dime because of their efforts in fund raising.

Our team does something very similar. It works well and is very fair across the board.

[Tomasz Bania]

Looking at the posts in this thread, I see that we pay quite alot every year.There was no join fee prior to my freshman year (afaik), but the join fee my freshmen and sophomore year was $300, and it was lowered to $200 this year. The join fee includes shirts, sportcoats, and the regionals/nationals, but does not include food or "entertainment" during the regionals/nationals. On the other hand, our team isn't a "fundraising" team, but we have GM and our school district as great sponsors, and have many other sponsors in the works.

[lukevanoort]

I don't believe we've ever had a joining fee (although I personally like the idea), but we have to pay for our hotel rooms, food, etc. We don't have to pay much for travel because we are close enough to all the events we attend to travel in private vehicles (although I did make an attempt to convince the team to go to Waterloo this year... for some reason the 13hr drive didn't appeal to them). Travel costs for VCU are usually around $120 + food; when we went to Palmetto, it was $150ish + food (I may be a bit off on this one, I don't remember very well); and the Championship was around $150 + food back in 2005, but is $200 + food this year (rising cost of hotels, I guess). The team subsidized some of the cost for Palmetto and, IIRC, the Championship this year.

[MasterChief 573]

Because of the funding our team gets from the Chrysler Foundation we don't have a "team fee". However, we have started a travel fee that ends up being $300. $75 dollars for our one out of state regional that we drive to and stay at a hotel for and $225 for the championship which we fly to.