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Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>On how to proceed with my Robotics Club?</p>

<p>Ok to put it simply, we're broke.
We participate in FTC and Vex</p>

<p>Our top builder is the son of our coach, who has an incredible bias towards him.</p>

<p>Our next best builder receives no training from our best builder.
I'm probably the best programmer there save for our senior, but she still insists on putting in a 2nd rate person ahead of me.</p>

<p>School doesn't support us or give us money, though they did buy us a field.</p>

<p>So after next year, the coach leaves and we have no money, no coach.</p>

<p>I love Robotics too much just to see it die at my High School.</p>

<p>How should I save it?</p>

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<p>Please help?</p>

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<p>Ask local companies for sponsorships/expertise…</p>

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<p>Have fundraisers at your school! You could put on a robotics show, and show off all of the cool things you can do with technology/robots. You could charge people to come and view it, and once they see how awesome robotics is, they will understand why your club needs help/support. Good luck!</p>

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<p>^Good idea, but perhaps a tad ambitious. Personally, I think carwashes are a great way to raise money.</p>

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<p>Yea, we do carwashes and bakesales to raise money.</p>

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<p>I agree, car washes are awesome. If you have one over the summer at a popular place, such as a grocery store, people are sure to come!</p>

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<p>In my experience, car washes make very little money. Pretty much every organization at my school agrees on that.</p>

<p>At my school with 2000 people, bake sales make between $150 and $250. You could do a couple of those, and maybe a sale of coffee and donuts one morning. I don’t know how much you need, but you can make money pretty quickly like that.</p>

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<p>Here’s how much we need: Anything above $1k. I’ll see about the bakesale. And Carwashes in my area generally work well.</p>

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<p>Bake sales work the best.</p>

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<p>Oh, a group at my school sold water bottles for $1 each and made about $2000. Maybe more. They got them either for free of for a really cheap price by asking for a donation. All of their money is going to charity though, so I don’t know if it would be as easy to get a donation when the money is for a robotics club, but you could maybe get them half off ish? Or just do about 6 bake sales.</p>

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<p>You know, bake sales could work. And That water bottle thing could work really well.</p>

<p>Any tips on sponsors/</p>

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<p>For sponsors, i think you should go up to them and say why you want to be sponsored. Make them see why it’s a good investment. If your robotics team has been doing well, show them that. If you guys made it onto the newspaper, show them the article. </p>

<p>My club holds these sports tournaments. We held a badminton tourny in January, and we made around $300. We’re thinking about ping pong next. </p>

<p>Oh also, if you’re going to hold a bake sale, try to see if you can hold one on the day of SATs. I bet you you’ll make a lot of $$. Good Luck!</p>

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<p>Thanks. And we used to be in the Newspaper, but our Sister Robotics School, Battlefield High School(Way more $$, way more people, way more resources) pretty much hogs the spotlight. They even have national tv attention.</p>