quickie: how do make your parents let you skip 4 days of school so you can go to Atlanta? 
Ask nicely, beg if necessary - offer to pay some of the costs associated with it.
If youâre going with a team, itâs a lot easier.
If your not going with a team, and just want to go to ATL by yourself, being a girl helps (they seem to be able to get their way easier than guys do at the HS age), or having friends who will join you helps even more. Power in numbers kinda thing with the parental units.
Iâve seen it done before.
also. ask at a good time.
and be nice.
You donât MAKE them do anything.
First, you need to talk to your teachers to make sure that you can miss 4 days of school. Trust me, the first thing your parents will ask is if itâs OK with the teachers. All of the teachers. (Iâm in college, and I got that from my folks about a trip to Texas with one of the competition teams. Enough said.)
Then, talk to your parents. If they donât know how important this is to you, then you need to tell them. If you have a small team, you might bring the âevery person helpsâ reason.
You will also need to let them know what kind of arrangements need to be made. Is the team paying transportation? Whose responsibility are meals? Where would you be staying? What is your itinerary?
everything is paid for me 
and itâs okay with school, I guess Iâll just have to be nice
My personal opinion is that it wonât matter how you ask. They arenât easily swayed. Parents are the constant of life. Try to ploy a trick, and you are guaranteed to get a no. However, there is always the âbig wordsâ theory. If your parents arenât that mechanically inclined, you can usually convince them that it is for research of future robots. After all, you are âlearning from the bestâ. Good luck, but I will surprised if anything you say will make the slightest difference to them.
I never had to convince my parents of anythingâŚ
⌠they always willingly took me to everything I wanted to go to.
Also, the championship has exhibits set up by many colleges. You could try to convince by saying that you would get information for some of these colleges. I know that a girl on my teamâs mom said she has to get information from six colleges. And just remember whatever you do donât fight with them if they say no or maybe, that always ends up with them deffinately saying no.
Hey, it has been a while! I guess you got that team started afterall! Good job.
Hmm⌠Ask very nicely? Explain to them how important this is to you and how you will be supervised while there and completely safe. You are going to be supervised right? If so, get a phone call going between the mentor and parents.
-Vivek
Same here. Robotics is one thing they know is good for kids and fully support it.
Also Alex if you can I would try to get your parents involved with the team somehow so that in the future they can go to the competitions and it will make it easier on yourself and them.
lol, that is completely wrong in my case. My parents wouldnât mind if my brother was going so much as me. My dadâs overprotective of me 
Luckily, my mom convinced him to let me go 
Easiest way to get your parents to consent to your traveling to Atlanta is have them attend at least one regional before hand. My mom did and now sheâs going too.