okay now we have potential

After 3 lunch meetings (and one after school meeting) this week, with the help of Sophia, Mr. Rockman, and Mr. Barriger, Meg and I met with the head of school and got the go ahead to pursue one of the companies we were previously asked not to go to. THIS IS AMAZING because now we really have a HUGE chance to finally get this fundraising going, and hopefully we'll get the present this one in person, and therefore have a much more pursuasive proposal.

This next part of this post is especailly for myself, Lauren, and Allison (who will still be on the team next year, of course) that we either need to get a recurring primary sponsor (one to stay with us from year to year) or we need to start WAY early to get grant proposals in to a LOT of companies. We're talking August here or something. While I feel like it's my fault that we have come so close to our deadlines with very little of our budget raised, I also realize that this process is completely new to all of us, and in the early years of our team it's all a learning experience. Now we know that we have to work more in the offseason to make us more successful and less stressed when it comes down to the build period, so that we can do more PR and get the community more involved and focus less on just the dollars. I know that, with time, we'll be able to work out all the kinks and the Castilleja robotics program will just become even more amazing than it already is.

-Hannah