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Re: Community-Based Teams: How do you get your name out there?
We are constantly involved in community events and other outreach. We also are heavily involved in running FLL competitions and mentoring FLL teams, so there are hundreds of kids that are exposed to MARS just through FLL. We are featured in parades, we release a press release after every competition, we are constantly making presentations to our sponsors and potential new sponsors, and there is a lot of word-of-mouth from our current members. For example, just yesterday, we did a presentation to our Rotary Club sponsor while also helping with an elementary school STEM camp on the other side of town at the same time.
We meet at West Virginia University, and we are not associated with the schools, but we have a monetary sponsorship from the school board. We just look for any opportunity we can to be involved with our community. We have found that there are fewer people in our county of over 100,000 that have not heard of MARS than there are that have.
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2016 season in memory of Phil Tucker
We came to be inspired. We stay because we are. We will become the inspiration.
2016 Championship - Newton quarter-finalist, Hopper-Newton Gracious Professionalism Award
2016 Regionals - Finalists (x2), Chairman's Award, Gracious Professionalism (x2), Industrial Design
2015 Championship - Hopper Finalists
2015 Regionals - Chairman's Award, Regional Champions, Gracious Professionalism, Woodie Flowers Finalist
2014 Championship - Innovation in Controls Award
2014 Regionals - Chairman's Award, Champions, Finalist, Entrepreneurship, Gracious Professionalism, Dean's List Finalist, Creativity
2013 Championship - Entrepreneurship Award
2013 Regionals - Engineering Inspiration Award, Entrepreneurship, Dean's List Finalist
2012 Championship - Woodie Flowers Award
2012 Regionals - Champions, Chairman's Award, Finalist, Innovation in Controls
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