<p>The Science Olympiad teams at my school are literally broke, which is unfortunate because we still have many things we need to pay for. Does anyone have any suggestions for fundraisers? What has worked well for your clubs in the past?</p>
<p>We needed to make some money this year, too. My club made each person pay a $10 due, which actually turned out quite well. We also worked at the concessions during football and basketball games and made a great deal of money. Talk to the principal or whoever’s in charge of the concessions - we took in about 1/2 or 1/3 of the profit.</p>
<p>What division are you in?</p>
<p>Sell Pi! Pizza Pies. My daughter’s softball team sold frozen pizzas every year, and people ate them up, if you’ll pardon the pun. </p>
<p>And since you are selling to raise funds for a Science Olympiad, what could be better than the tie in with Pi?</p>
<p>I would guess that you have to have some sort of local mfg / store that would get you going on this. And remember, Google is your friend. :)</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>ps: I like mine with pepperoni and mushroom.</p>
<p>My school’s Science Olympiad did a fantasy science league. People got stats based in absences, GPA, and science classes taken from the AP Science kids. And so people paid 3 dollars to create a team. Everyday the AP Science kids (who each had a codename) took a test. </p>
<p>And it was a lot of fun to do, just a lot of work to put together for the sponsor. </p>
<p>That and all the clubs in my school sell pies via Market Day.</p>
<p>I’m captain of my school’s oly team and we made every member pay a $65 fee. We also set fundraising quotas of $40 for people doing studyahead events and $60 for people doing buildahead events… $100 total if you’re doing both. To reach those quotas, we put ads in our local paper and have been getting hired as a team for random jobs like leaf raking, snow shoveling, even catering a party at a temple once! I had the ad include my email address and, once someone contacted me with an opportunity, I would forward the info the the team and the money we made from each job was split among the people who showed up and added to their quota. People could also do their own fundraising or just write a check for their quota amount too, if they’d like. In theory, the threat is that if they don’t meet quota, they get kicked off the team, but thankfully we’ve never had to resort to that.</p>
<p>Of course, I’m not really sure how much you think you’re going to need. Our team won States three years in a row and has been in the top three teams for the last 7-10 years or so, so we take oly SUPER seriously and spend tons of money on materials, equipment, books, etc. (It’s also nice to have money to offset costs for when we go to Nationals.) So far, we’ve netted around $2000-3000, but we also go through the money fairly quickly (spent $600 on sumobots, for example.) </p>
<p>Good luck anyway!</p>
<p>(Oh, easy fundraiser if you’re selling stuff in school- sell freezepops. But a box from Costco for like $10 and sell one for 50 cents, three for a dollar and you’ll make a few hundred bucks fairly easily in about a week or so towards the end of the school year… or you could sell them for even more time than that if you live somewhere warm. But bigger profit margin than bake sales and, since I’m assuming that your team is also unfortunately male-dominated, something the guys would be more likely to be willing to do.)</p>
<p>^all the ideas above are great, especially the concession stand. i’m in the same issue right now with my science club. we made everyone pay a 10 dollar due (which works out well). also, we are writing grants to several major corporations asking for monetary funding. that usually works. good luck. :)</p>
<p>Seeing as at least one team mentioned above is a National competitor, I should mention that my school’s team started only last year, and we have minimum funding. Hurhur.</p>