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Team Handbook Development

Current topics of interest: fundraising and general student expectations

Fundraising Student Expectations

Benchmarking

See article page for handbook links.

Rolling Thunder

Each student is responsible for going to enough patrons to raise the incremental amounts of money that they need for the trips. Each New Student is to select and visit 5 businesses or obtain $250 in donations. Each Returning Student is to select and visit 10 businesses or obtain $500 in donations. Students are encouraged to travel together, however (for example), if two returning students travel together, they must obtain a total of 20 businesses or $1,000.
NOTE: Returning students get to maintain their business connections, and will be allowed to sign up for ALL of their past patrons. No new students will be able to sign up for our previous patrons unless they are marked “OPEN” by a student graduating or leaving the team.

TechnoKats

For the past few years, students have raised from $100 - $400 in order to travel to the FIRST Championships. In 2007, the cost was $275. This year, each student can expect to fundraise as much as $350 to be an active member of the team. This money goes to pay student travel costs.
Any person traveling with the team must commit by writing a check and giving it to the team travel coordinator for $100 on or before Wednesday January 30th. This is a commitment deadline for all team members! Final travel money is due on Wednesday, February 27th. Students who have fundraised more than their travel costs will have their travel deposits returned.
Fundraising Method - Services Provided (from Business Plan):

• Provide Computer Assisted Design (CAD) services for the community
• Use machine shop, providing simple parts and prototypes (brackets, mounting plates, plates, etc.)
• Provide labor for community projects
  

Customers will be charged for all necessary materials for the completion of the project. The actual service provided by the TechnoKats will be free. The team will suggest donations at one-hundred dollar increments depending on the specific project. Any donations offered by the customer will be divided into participating student travel accounts and team funds. Any donating business will be listed as a TechnoKats sponsor and will receive varying levels of recognition.

Blue Cheese

Each student is responsible for raising part of the team’s budget by doing one or more of the following: 1) Actively participating in at least two major fundraisers 2) Bringing in a new sponsor or family donation

Raider Robotix

All students are required to participate in all team fundraising activities. The funds raised are typically used for student expenses while we are traveling. Travel costs are supplemented by money from the team treasury obtained as a part of our sponsorship grant. Every student has an individual fund raising account maintained by the coaches. Profits made from fundraisers are accumulated in these accounts and spent for travel expenses with the team. In the event a student leaves the team the travel account is forfeit and is absorbed in the general treasury of the team.

Duct Tape Bandits

(In order to compete) Sell minimum of 10 pies. If a member joins the team after pie sales, that member is required to pay the cost of 10 pies to the team ($120), due to the fact that pie sales go towards lowering team’s travel expense. The more pies sold, lower travel fees will result, if any.

Team 612

All students are expected to participate in the numerous fund raisers throughout the year to support team functions such as craft fairs, dry cleaner card sales, food sales, and car washes. Although many expenses are subsidized by fundraising efforts, students are responsible for registration and some competition expenses. These may include transportation, meals, incidentals, and general spending money. Students experiencing difficulty with expenses are encouraged to speak to the faculty advisor. No student will be denied team participation due solely to financial constraints.

New Apple

Costs covered by N.E.W. Apple Corps Team Members: Partial cost of competition travel, Cost of apparel, Meal costs at competition events, Invitational competition expenses. This year we will require students to participate in at least two fundraising events. Proceeds from these fundraisers will be distributed among those who contributed based on total number of hours worked. [Costs not covered by the Booster Club/Fundraising are paid out of pocket.]

Northern Force

To be considered for travel to a regional competition, students must have contributed at least 30 hours of work. These 30 hours may include fund raising activities, work with a subteams, and clinic attendance. At least 4 hours of this time will be used working on fund raising activities.

Notes

[Siri:]

• Virtually all these teams tie fundraising directly to student travel, largely because that's all it has to pay for. As far as I know, we don't have the luxury of operating under this assumption. While it's a good idea (it's a definite benefit of the program), we may want to consider another level.
• Teams vary on actual requirements. Some require participation (in hours or events/projects, etc), some mandate a certain success rate (in dollars), and some don't require anything--it can be paid out of pocket.
• The constant, however, is that teams students can fundraise, and it correlates directly to dollars that don't have to come out of their pocket. (This makes sense.)
• Most if not all of these teams do more fundraisers than we do.

--Siri 00:13, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Ideas

[Siri:]
Note: my personally-imposed deadline for a draft of this section is 29-July-2010 (ie send the email before the Steering Meeting). I don't plan on reinventing the wheel (or even the chassis, for the most part).

• That pesky main functional spec: What do we actually want from this? How much? For what, exactly? etc.
• I like the 1511 Patron Drive. It seems like it takes a little doing to make successful, but luckily we have friends in high places over there to give us hints.
• Tying successful fundraising efforts to competition attendance makes sense. However, I wonder if we don't want an "active member" requirement as well. (If nothing else, it will force the efforts to spread out over the year without making kids base all this work on something so far in the future.)
• On that note, quarterly benchmarks or something of the sort would probably help. They'd probably have to be prorated based on new members' join dates, though.
• The TechnoKats refundable travel deposit idea is pretty cool. This solidifies travel commitment while adding the incentive of actually getting money back.
• We could consider correlating credit not just with project participation, but with leadership/effort. That might get more students to step forward into organizational roles.
• (Obviously) we still need a provision for non-discrimination based on family income. I think the this sort of setup would cover it well, and Foster's 90%-10% (80%-20%?) split with the universal pot is still appealing here.
• Tangential: All these teams have very elaborate student requirements outside of fundraising. (Will be benchmarked soon)

--Siri 00:13, 27 July 2010 (UTC)