Our school administration is VERY supportive of us. They talk about our wins, our awards, and other things like that. The pricipal has always wanted to start a sort of engineering and tech magnet school at our high school, so he's EXTREMELY happy with news of advancement and awards we win, he even convinced our school district even pays all of our competition entrance fees to help us out
But that's where the good news ends. The student population, on the other hand, is hardly supportive. If at all, really.
We started the year with 26 members, and even as wins and trophies have piled up, members continue to leave. Now, we're down to 8 kids managing two FTC teams and robots, and it can get hectic. We try to talk about all that we do and how fun it is, but many students aren't willing to put in all the work that we require, even saying that two meetings a week is too much! :/
It's easy to generate interest when your school is an engineering or technology magnet school, but for just a regular high school with average kids, it's hard to get their attention. We make promotional posters, advertise that we're still allowing people to join the team, and even mention that we get to miss days of school. But yet nobody new has joined since November :///
It's sad to know that so many great minds are missing out on such a fun activity, and a productive one at that, simply because they're "too busy" to put in all the time.
Okay. I'm done.
TL;DR: Administration at school loves us, but the student body, not so much.