Never have. But this is for my grandson. He is part of a tech club at his high school. They have made it to the national championship in Dallas for the Technology Student Association (TSA - ironic acronym, yes?) and have no support from their school district. They are holding fundraisers, but we don't live in an affluent area and you can only sell so many spaghetti dinner tickets to the same people again and again.
If you are so inclined, here is a GoFundMe page we set up for his group so they can all attend. As it stands right now, only 9 of the kids can go, strictly because the $1300 price tag is just too high for many of the families. My daughter's goal is modest....she has had the thing up on facebook and it has garnered some support. Since I know the folks at dkos are a generous lot, thought I'd post it here too. We need to cash out early next week, so any help you would like to give would be very, very much appreciated
http://www.gofundme.com/...