Sponsors, Ideas, and Many Things

[Spartan151]

Hey, all. I've been dormant for a while, but I decided to come to you all for some advice now. The team I'm on, 2065, is on our own this year. We have used our grants from NASA already, and our previous sponsors can't fund us this year. Our founding coach moved on to another high school, and didn't really pick a suitable successor, mainly because she told her successor to ask me what to do on everything. Now, normally I'd like this kind of responsibility, but I'm slowly being overwhelmed as we have to get everything ready. I've already talked with a few possible sponsors, and I'm just waiting on a reply from each. I've been attempting to recruit more members in the school, but so far I haven't been able to organize a decent recruitment meeting. It seems that we have our work in for us this year.

I want to ask some of the more experienced teams: What is your secret to success? We're a small public school who doesn't have a lot, but we're willing to do what we can to survive. What advice could you give us to get ourselves righted and started good this year?

Also, what else do you think we can to for sponsorship? I mean, with the economy being a bit tight, people are rather apprehensive about putting out money to anything nowadays.

Really, we just need a lot of help. We've got to get started somehow, but we need a place to catch hold of and get some momentum, 'cause our wheels are spinning, but we're not getting anwhere.