Hi everyone! I am in need of team’s to give me stories about their finacial history, especially this year. I would like to know how hard/easy it was for you team to make your budget this year. Feel free to share as many stories as possible about people who helped you on you way. I’m doing this for a school report and the stories will help make the report seem much more realistic. As a parallel to my team, I am especially looking for stories where the team had to struggle but all others are definately welcome also. Thanks so much! You may post them here or email me at [email protected]
For the regionals our team was really tight on budget. We had a lot of sponsors but each sponsor only gave a little amount of money. The price each student had to pay kept on rasing. When we found out we were qualified for the Nationals we had about a week to gather $30 000 because we had $0 left from what we had ealier. We basically had about 5 team members skipping classes and going around town for sponsors. After first two days we raised about $10 000 and things weren’t looking so good for us. Each student/team member will probably have to pay a lot by themselves. We had a meeting on the third day after school and by then we were over $20 000. We were really happy then because most of the financial needs could be paid off. As time went by and even during the compeition we’ve gotten more and more sponsors and money.!.
Wow, sounds like you guys had a lot on your hands for a while. Thanks for sharing your story. It’s greatly appreciated. Anyone else got some great stories?