Fundraising, Chairman's Award and More

Well, our team met again tonight for a few hours to get things ready for our pit area and also to make more buttons. Prior to our work, we had a team meeting...

We are still working on raising money through our "pizza kit" sale. Funds are tight this year and we need to do all we can to raise the cash we need for our remaining competitions.

Work still needs to be done on our Chairman's Award video. There is only a little bit of work remaining, but it seems increasingly difficult to get it finished. Our Chairman's Award presentation needs some practice as well.

We talked about invitations to our upcoming district event. Hopefully we can use our website as a tool to get interested people to the competition.

We'll be meeting again Thursday to continue on where we left off today.

First Meeting After FIRST Competition

Tonight we had our first meeting after our first competition. There were a lot of congratulations, but it quickly turned serious. We have a lot of things to work on for the next 4 weeks and we can't let ourselves fall into a state of over confidence. We also started a fund raising campaign using Little Caesars Pizza kits.

Our chances look real good for qualifying for the Michigan State Championship, and we've already started looking toward the road to Atlanta. Fund raising is going to be a hot topic for the next 5 weeks.

The programming team will be meeting tomorrow and Wednesday to begin working out several issues we discovered in Traverse City. We didn't have any huge problems, just some things we noticed that might help us when we compete in West Michigan.

The rest of the team will convene next week on Tuesday to discuss scouting, our Chairman's Award presentation, pit design, button making and more programming.

Team 904 has certainly taken a step up the ladder this year and it feels good.