So whats everybody doing for fundraising over the summer? I’ll start us off, We’ve been doing a few car washes. We also are selling pet fish in bowls, with gravel and stuff. We had 12 and we sold them all within an hour and a half 
. Have any teams done bake sales over the summer?
We got an extremely late start last summer (our first summer doing it), and only had 4 students. But I’m glad cuz we learned we could do it after all. This year we have 32 students in beginning and 16 in advanced. We looked at local summercamps, and came up with a low end charge of $300 a student for 2 weeks.
Unfortunately, as far as I know, my team isn’t doing any fundraising. Mostly 'cause it’s not something the students want to do at all. I’m going to try and see if I can coax some of them into doing SOMETHING. Cross your fingers… stupid teenage apathy…
I applaud BCR for their efforts - it’s difficult to find enough team members available in the summer months to hold one-day fundraisers, let alone two-week-long summer camps!
KathieK, couldn’t we have some kind of tournament? Something easy for us to do like a ping-pong tournament? We could pretty much just have people pay for addmission to be in the tournament and maybe the pattle and ball…i’ll be away for a few days though so i won’t be able to reply for a bit…
team yardsale. Team members donate stuff they dont want, we have a yard sale, and the profit goes to the team.
ya my team this year isnt really doing any fundraising. Im all for doing fundraising and stuff this summer…but I dont think anyone will listen to me lol Out of summer fundrasing is kinda hard because I never get enough money saved up and I still do every fundraising thing. I think that we dont do enough fundraising. All we do basically is lego league concession stands, krispy kreme donut sales at football games and i think we also do one car wash. but i think thats it. Im going to maybe talk to the head people about fundraising in the summer. It will probably help alot. 
The great thing about doing fundraisers during the summer months is that you’re not competing with other teams or groups or school PTO/PTA fundraisers, etc. But it is difficult to rally everyone around for them.
This past season we sold Entertainment Books and pizza kits as personal fundraisers - where any profit earned by the student is credited towards the student’s travel account. And we did car washes and a pasta dinner as team fundraising - which goes toward things like t-shirts, etc. The adults on the team sold beer at our new college football stadium which was a very successful fundraiser. It was a LOT of hard work, though.
We’ve been preparing (making brochures, new website, making lists) to contact all sorts of local businesses and just started calling today. We don’t really have any “fundraisers” planned, but if we can’t get enough support from businesses, we will have to turn to that.
We don’t really do fundraisers, why I have no idea 
. What I do know is that we try and get some sponsors over the summer, and I guess we end up getting most all of our resources that way. If we ever end up doing fundraisers we would porbably do the common carwash because they go well around here. I also remember a few years ago to get money for a camp we sold christmas foliage and that brought in a decent amount of cash.
I, personally, have been trying everything (that’s not a conventional, or smart idea) , I’ve asked friends if they had anyone annoying them or they had someone they liked, and i offered to stalk the people for a price, but it’s not really working. The team has been catering at ITT Tech and have gotten a lot, plus we will have car washes, but I’d rather do some of my stuff, because there are a lot of people on my team I want to strangle to death, and by a lot I mean 20 people at least, and I can’t work with them for longer than 2 minutes.
Ooh, a summer camp! That’s awesome. We came up with the idea of having a 3D animation camp but unfortunately the summer enrichment packets had already been published; it would have been almost impossible to advertise for the camp that late into the spring. We’re planning on one next year.
We just came off a really successful car wash in late may. We don’t have much planned for the summer months. Starting september though we’ll probably be having another car wash and a bake sale. After that we planning on holding a raffle or two until the season starts.
We do most of sponsor-searching during the season.
today we had a car wash and made over $500 bux. 
we had a car wash a few weeks ago that raised about $715 (woo woo!)
and now, thanks to team 364, we’re going to host our first (and hopefully annual) Cooney Robotics Golf Tournament on October 2nd!!
We’re expecting to make at least $5,000 and eventually groom this to be our only fundraiser if it all works out well
And even more importantly, we raised $200 for Alex’s Lemonade Stand to benefit pediatric cancer research.
We had 2 car washes last year they didn’t do too well but this year we had a pop can and bottle drive and that made around $500. :]
we are going to have a car wash. we had a pop can drive. we also had our second annual lego league summer camp. we have been mostly going after big sponsors though. I think we will do some others coming up but i’m not sure.
Nate
As for Team 66 Fundraising, we did a bottledrive of 2 neighborhoods first thing this summer, a car wash in late June, then in late July and early this month, we helped out a pair of local politicians get their name known before the August 3rd primary. We’ve been also assisting an amusement company run games, concessions and rides over at a couple picnics with the school ROTC program. The two picnics were for the local Federal Mogul and the UAW. Quite fun. The next fundraiser we’ll be running will be at a heritage festival and we’ll be selling misc. stuff and offering people to goto restaurants where we’ll get a portion of the money used to buy food.
461 is thinking more about Outreach right now. We went to the Indiana state fair, and it shows how “different” Indiana really is. They had a booth for “The World’s fastest Lawn Mower” from the hit Discovery Channel series American Chopper. There was also a “Register to vote” booth that only showed pictures of George W. Bush and governor contender Mitch Daniels. There was a life-size stand-up poster of George W. Bush, and I can happily say that I am taller than him. Quite a few passed by, and watched our robot lift its arms up and down and pick up and dispense small balls and cap and uncap a 4’ goal 230 times and took a handful of breath mints. Some even said their children might be interested in FIRST robotics. Look for them in central Indiana teams this fall. Team 1024 was there too, and by the end of the day, repetitious finger movements paid off when Indiana First Lady Judy O’Bannon (She Looked like Judy O’Bannon, but she might have been Mrs. Kernan) came by and talked to Mr. Florence, and became quickly impressed with the FIRST program. Now the state of Indiana might give money and support to the over 20 teams in the state.
There have been several ideas, too. We were thinking of mentoring a rookie team next year in Logansport, and we will mentor IHOT (Team 1414 from the Atlanta International Academy [they are really nice people]) this fall and spring. We are also participating in more of Purdue’s fairs and events, maybe even the Job Fair (which could help connect us with industries to donate money to 461). I also suggested to mentor Matt Adams (who maintains www.playlemonland.com) to have an official Play Lemonland lemonade stand, but nothing materialized out of it. It is the thought that counts.
I just received a notice about cell phone recycling as a school fundraiser - they say they’ll pay UP TO $25 per cell phone. Has anyone tried this or thought about doing this? Even if they only pay $10 per phone, 100 phones recycled (5 phones per team member on average), that’s $1000. Hmmm… I wonder if it is that easy. Feedback?