What Does "Our Team Really Needs Funding" Mean To You?

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by davidthefat

California is broke apparently, we are in debt... A really big one

Hasn't stopped us for raising plenty for two regionals, champs, all associated student travel, money to remodel our shop, and plenty for the robot budget.

Hard work pays off, our team works hard to fund-raise, so we get results.

We don't live in an affluent community, and we have few sources of income greater than $500. It's just hard work and LOTS of fund-raisers.

When I joined the team, 973 was not a "have". They often used what they already had versus what was optimal for the design, they didn't build two robots, they didn't budget a lot for robots, they didn't budget for two regionals + champs. I helped reform the team, and through the hard work as a group the team is now a "Have" team.

I have little sympathy for people that whine about insufficient funding, etc... If you want to be a "Have", you have to put the work in.