Thread: How much does your school's general population care about your team?
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AKA: Peter Hartnett
FRC #1816 ("The Green Machine" (Alumnus))
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Join Date: Nov 2014
Rookie Year: 2008
Location: Edina, Minnesota
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Re: How much does your school's general population care about your team?
1816 is very well supported in our community.

Our principal makes regular appearances at our competitions and state championship. They do what they can to let us get visibility with the student body as well; We run robots at the homecoming assembly and at various other events throughout the year.

In our community we are very well known. We do tons of outreach in our schools with the other FIRST programs so it isn't super common to find a family that isn't at least a little familiar with the fact that we exist, some kids have been coming to our events for years and years awaiting being able to join the team.

Outreach is the best way to get interested in what you are doing. If you put yourself out there people will notice.
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