New FRC Team

[phr34kR]

Originally Posted by lilstogi11

Just a question: Have you had any trouble attaining sponsors and additional funding/resources?

Is this question for the New Zealand teams?

If so our school is still trying to get the Registration fee together for in time, we should be able to fundraise the $1,500 needed but our school has said if we don’t have all the money by October they will loan us the money which is good. The only thing I can see being a problem for the NZ teams is getting the compulsory corporate sponsorship of $50,000 but I think the university organising everything is approaching the potential sponsors we have given them the names of. So we should be able to get all the sponsorship needed to compete, for our school it will be more of a problem getting the additional money for non KoP items and if possible we are going to try get the $1,500 worth of software needed to use the CNC our school owns, why we don’t have the software for it is a mystery though.

Tim

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by phr34kR

Is this question for the New Zealand teams?

If so our school is still trying to get the Registration fee together for in time, we should be able to fundraise the $1,500 needed but our school has said if we don’t have all the money by October they will loan us the money which is good. The only thing I can see being a problem for the NZ teams is getting the compulsory corporate sponsorship of $50,000 but I think the university organising everything is approaching the potential sponsors we have given them the names of. So we should be able to get all the sponsorship needed to compete, for our school it will be more of a problem getting the additional money for non KoP items and if possible we are going to try get the $1,500 worth of software needed to use the CNC our school owns, why we don’t have the software for it is a mystery though.

Tim

Yes it was. And that is awesome to hear that the education system is stepping up to support NZ teams this much. I wish you and your friends around NZ the best of luck this year and for many years to come.

[Bob Steele]

Good to hear from you KIWIs
We met many of you in Atlanta. I hope your Regional turns out to be a lot of fun!!
We had a new regional in Seattle last year and the first year went very well.

There are many ways you can try and raise some of the extra funding that you will need. Please check out some of the white papers here on CD ... our team could help with some ideas too.

I wish you best of luck ... keep on posting whenever you need help.
CD is always here to provide information for you...

R

[Madison]

Originally Posted by Bob Steele

Good to hear from you KIWIs
We met many of you in Atlanta.

Gosh your rate of exchange must be much higher than ours.
US teams pay $6000 to register their teams...

Everyone can jump on me for saying this but a minimal cost for a rookie team to get started in the US is somewhere between $7000 and $10,000 including registration, minimal travel and parts for the robot.

I wish you best of luck ... keep on posting whenever you need help.
CD is always here to provide information for you...

R

I just checked; at today's exchange rates, $1,500.00 New Zealand Dollars is equivalent to US$1,030.70. Hrm.

[dtengineering]

Hey... that's .68 USD... not too bad. When we started out the Canadian dollar was down at .63!

Jason

[phr34kR]

Hi yea the $50,000 goes towards the winning teams travel costs i think plus the cost of the Kop and venue hire.

Tim