Does your team charge a fee to join?

[USAFRoboticsNut]

our team doesn't charge any fee but does require students to attend a certain amount of both community and competition events or else they get a temporary suspension from the team. if they refuse to participate after that then they are asked to leave the team.

[itzaklevi]

When we started out, we charged ~$75 plus travel costs because we didn't have a lot of sponsors. Since then, we have unfortunately had to up costs to $175 plus travel. We have actually gained sponsors since then, but our school cut all of our funding, so now the team have to pay for registration and competition fees in addition to the school's pay-to-play fee of $100. It really bothers me that we have to give the school around $4000 just to exist when they do absolutely nothing for us - our coach doesn't even get a stipend. It really sucks.

[thegnat05]

All FIRST teams in our school district charge a fee. Our FRC and FTC teams charge a fee of $225 per student and FLL teams are somewhere around $100. This is because our FTC and FLL teams generally don't have sponsors and are funded completely by their entrance fee. Our FRC teams have very generous sponsors but having that entrance fee helps a lot with budgeting and controlling funding.

All of our FIRST programs are run through the community programing, we call it Community Ed. They are the same people that run things like Club Care after school and Drivers Ed so some of that money goes directly to Community Ed.