I need everyone who recieves varsity jacket lettering to post here!
 

Ok, this year team 461 is going to try to get letters for varsity jackets. However, the only person who seems to have a problem with this is our athletic director who, the last i heard, was against our team using the same jackets as the rest of our school sports. Dean created FIRST as a sport, and we are the only team representing our school at an international level. Basketball, football, or volleyball, FIRST Robotics is the only thing our school has to show off to the entire world, other than our foreign language activities.

I need everyone who recieves varsity jacket lettering to post here, and state whether or not you get to use the same jackets as your schools other sports.

I need a big, long list of posts saying that you get letters!

Tell your friends to post here! Thank you!

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We do indeed get letters but they are different than the athletics, they have a little academic torch on them like the National Honor Society symbol. They are called "academic letters" but they are better than the sports if you ask me. But I do believe that a team should get the letters because they are still a team that the school supports just as a sports team is and the athletic director should just go fly a kite.:)

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We get varsity letters on our team for every 2 years your on the team. I think that FIRST is a sport and that it should allow you to get a letter for it

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Wow, I'd definitely cause a major stink with the athletic department. We have soccer jerseys that are similar to our school's, and we may get jackets for the championship.

Why should they care anyway? Try an outside source, so your athletic director has no say over what you can and cannot have.

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Members of Team 93, my old team, are able to receive letters and letter jackets for their involvement in FIRST.

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When I was on team 93 in high school, we were able to letter. See page 24 of the NAC Handbook for lettering criteria! :)

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Our team is now recognized as an academic sport (effective this year) and our members are eligible for the letter and pin.

On a side note, those schools that are a sport (academic or otherwise), what do your pins look like? Our athletic department is looking and hasn't found anything suitable yet.

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kids on our team get a varsity letter for participating on our team and writing a nomination for the woodie flowers award.

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Here's a vote from Indiana. Southport High awards letters to veteran members - PM me and I'll give you a copy of our letter requirements. We mostly stole it from MOE - they've got a fantastic white paper on CD.
If the athletic director is against letters for non-sports, simply remind him that band members get letters too (as well as academic decathlon, academic super bowl, spell bowl, drama, speech team, and tons of other academic extracurriculars). Also, it helps to have a stringent letter-earning policy.
Good luck and Boiler Up!

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We use the FIRST logo patch - $3 apiece. It's linked through usfirst.org -> merchandise

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We're finalizing requirements for varsity lettering to begin this season; our school district did not seem to have any preliminary issues with our decision, as the marching band already awarded 'varsity letters' to its members.

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We get the same letters but we aren't supplied with jackets. But I'm pretty sure they count as the same varsity letters that one would recieve from athletics.

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Team 1746 has Letters. We have minimum participation standards, etc. We are considered an academic competition.

The team members get a letter the first year nad chevrons each year after.

We also have a team logo patch we give the kids.

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To expand on Andy's comment - our school, as some of you have previously mentioned, has also considered issuing letters of a modified design or inverted color order for 'non-athletic' letters (chess, orchestra, robotics, math, etc.). As far as I know, this has not been done and we continue to be eligible for the same varsity letters at the end of the year.

Good luck in your endeavor!

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We have patches for our club and we can buy the same jackets and all.
Our basketball coach who coached the east last year in the McDonalds High School All-star game fully supports our team as well as our athletics director who is considered the best baseball coach in the state of Georgia. You gotta try and get some of the coaches on board with knowing about your team an appreciating your team.
These two bought into the idea because they realize how much time and work it takes to build one of these robots and they realize that when you compete, you represnt the school, your state, and even sometimes your entire country. Most FIRST teams put in as much time as some athletic teams at our school.
I think that if you can show your director how much work and effort you put into, you may have a really good shot.