School/Team Relationships 2

[Ashley Weed]

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With so little money from your hosting school, how do you all do it? There are a couple of teams I know who go to all the regionals and the nats. Where does all the funding come from for you all?
We get about a grand total of $1,200 from all of the school districts (5) on our team. We get the rest of our sponsorship for the actual robot from a few businesses and families. I would say we have over 100 sponsors, and they all give us a little money. Almost all of the travel is paid for individualy, if you want to go, you pay to go. After all of the sponsorship and travel money paid by team members is put together, we manage to run on $40,000 a year. Not much, but we have made it happen for the past 6 years.

What supply of tools does your team have?
Brought from home, owned by the team, borrowed, etc???
We have few tools in our wood shop. A few things are brought in by engineers. Our welder actually brings his equipment into the wood shop, and he sits down and welds until he is finished with everything.