We work very hard to keep the cost of operating our highly competivite robotics team as low as possible and do not charge kids any club/participation fees.  We accomplish this by re-using robot parts from our very first season in 2016, only buying half-field game set instead of a full field set,  "borrowing" tools from parents/neighbors, asking other teams to loan out spare parts/equipment and just being creative with engineering solutions to the problem at hand (i.e. better design/incorporating different game strategies).

A typical veteran team recurring expenses for a year, without travel costs, looks like this:

• Team Registration $275

• Half-Field Game Set Playing Kit $260 (Full field kits are $450)

• Off-the-Shelf Parts for mechancial, electrical or processing input/output tasks $375 (i.e. servos $30/ea, batteries $50/ea, motors $40/ea, U-channels/plates/beams, sensors/gears, etc...) 

• Chasis Material Sheets used in structure $200 (i.e. G10 composite/lexan polycarbonate)

• 3D Printer Filament used for custom parts & structure $150 (i.e. custom grabber/manipulator mechanisms)

• Presentation Materials $240 for Outreaches & Tournaments (i.e. 3D printed team logos/engineering portfolio, etc...) 

Other expenses "our wish list" that we have avoided so far are: buying a new driver phone for $400 to replace the one from 2016, 6" Mechanum Wheels for $400, Linear Slide Lift Parts $200, new t-shirts $30/ea.  We would love to get our hands on a lot of other parts & supplies too.