Re: What is your school's attitude toward your team?
 

Many of our teachers come to our competitions - even those that require significant driving.

Our principal always attends our events. But she only comes for the qualifying matches on Friday :D I guess I'm not the only one trying to skip school :rolleyes: :D

Re: What is your school's attitude toward your team?
 

Be persistent, don't let it die!
Invite them down for a day during week 1 of build season, when all the creative stuff is happening, and week 3 when it's all happening at once. Make sure a single student is their guide, someone who is articulate and well-informed. You want to explain to them very clearly how much time and work is involved. They're not dumb, they'll get it. Yes, exactly.
Do not wait for them to get back to you, YOU get back to THEM when they do not respond - once each week if necessary - always polite, just asking "Hey we want to show you what we came up with, when can we come down and show you?"

In business (and life in general) nothing happens unless you make it happen. Follow up, persistence, and positive attitude is what differentiates between effective employees and drones.

Don

Re: What is your school's attitude toward your team?
 

I think we are prtty well liked at our school. We are featured like twice a year on our weekly TV show for school

We are honored at pep rally's

Everyone knows that we have had a somewhat succesful past an a lot of people come to our scool through the magnet program because of our robotics program so that is kinda cool

We have be asked to have a robot initiate the freshmen initiation the past 3 years by attaching a water cannon to our bots and spraying down the freshmen

Our principle, othr administrators, county science program directors, and magnet program directors have come to every competition we have had in Georgia (ptree and champs)

And, the best thing is, we get a good luck shout out from the big board outside of the school before competition lol