Team in Danger!

[Jill1022]

Team 1022 is in danger. Here are our problems:

• Our school has too many teams to compete with for members and not enough interest.
• We're losing our main sponsor and our money situation is looking bleak.
• 1/3 of our team is graduating this year and their knowledge wasn't passed on nearly as well as we'd have liked.
• Our GE/Regal-Beloit mentors have an unstable work situation and may not be able to help us next year.

The options we're considering now include:

• Vex
• BEST robotics
• Slow build / year off
• End of team

We're pretty sure that we're going to have to be a multi-school team, for you teams out there who are multi-school, how does that work out for you? Any advice, ideas, suggestions, ect?

Let me explain the slow build idea. We'd basically take a year off to teach new members, fundraise, ect. We'd build a robot and enter only off-season events. That cuts down our cost by a substantial amount and gives us lots of time to build and teach.

BEST is very similar to first, but much smaller.

Does anyone have any suggestions/advice/help/ideas/ect? Right now our leading idea is the slow build, but we're still going to need lots of help from all of you. We're leaning heavily towards getting out of FIRST, but I really want to stay. FIRST boasts about the companionship and gracious professionalism that the FIRST family has, so here's a chance to prove that true.