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stay persistant
I spent 2 years on 122 in high school with new horizons, definitely one of the best experiences of my life, they've really got their act together, and i think they have what i suspect nearly all the rest of us teams want, almost the total support of the school (at least they did when i was there)
I've been on team 401 here at Virginia Tech for 3 years now, and its been a long process, but we're slowly gaining support of the school system. Our first year we weren't even allowed to use our high school's name, second year they recognized us more, gave us some support, and initially the closet off of a bathroom from a woodshop to keep our stuff in. This year we've finally got multiple teachers, and a fairly nice shop to work out of, and we're at least 2 weeks ahead of where we've been in the construction process in the last 2 years.
'moral of this story boys and girls, stay persistent, and try to make contacts in the schools and community, schools will eventually have to listen to you'
~Scott
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122 --> 401 --> 118
"The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe .... In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. "
Carl Sagan
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