Texas FIRST teams doubling in 2 years

[JVN]

Originally Posted by lynca

Great job to everyone who was involved in pushing this legislation through.
I see 148 in the background, I'm not sure about the team on the left.

http://governor.state.tx.us/news/press-release/13937/

Does anyone have the specific details about the $1 million state donation ?

From what I understand it will be used two ways:
1. Pay the entry fees for new teams.
2. Pay the Championship Registration fees for any teams that qualify to "represent Texas".

This was just what I heard while we were there. I haven't seen any details of the roll-out.

Basically -- $1 million will go straight to FIRST as registration fees. We will have 100+ new "one kit wonder" FRC teams. Hopefully someone has a plan to help them find corporate sponsors and engineers so they can build a sustainable program to survive the rigorous FRC. 148 will of course, do what we can; but I can't help wishing that money was spent in other ways.

-John