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Unread 03-05-2016, 21:45
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Re: How much does your school's general population care about your team?

I don't think I have seen the principal at any of our events. At our closest event, some of our former teachers brought their middle school students to come watch but nobody from the high school came or really paid attention. When we qualified for State nobody really cared. When we qualified for world's, people cared a little more this year than last year. This year, the teachers at our virtual Academy and STEM buildings had the live stream going but when we got back, I just heard "I saw you guys online", nobody really congratulated us. Whenever sports teams qualify for state, the school arranges a police escorts to the highway. I know we aren't a sports team but we didn't even get that much recognition for how well we did. A lot of people don't really know who we are. I think until seeing the live streams, a lot didn't know we had a robotics team. The daily announcements don't point it out that greatly.
We have some school support, but barely any. We don't even get a place to meet on campus, which isn't too bad because where we meet is probably nicer than anything the school would ever give us. The nice thing is one or two of my teachers seem to like the robotics team, so after we got back from world's, they gave us more time than normal to make up any work we missed.
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