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Originally Posted by SilverStar
We get $1000 from our Associated Student Body (which on shirts is spelled Assciated student body  )
We also get to be part of the spring sports assembly and show off our robots. This year we got 4 minutes to drive the robots and finished with a hang off of the basketball hoop supports. The crowd went wild!
We get 1 page in the yearbook, and we're in newsletters/newspapers.
Almost all of the students at our school know about the Robotics Team, but that's partly due to the fact that our advisor is one of the most, if not the most, popular teacher at the school. |
We don't get money from either of our schools. MCHS did donate space for our first South Bay Lego League Tournament that turned into the largest So Cal Lego League Tournament. RUHS donates all our workingspace.
We woo'd an english teacher to go with us to Phoenix regional. He was SOOOO pumped up he talked endlessly about it at teacher meeting and his english classes. It gained us 3 new members, he's now willing to do the school paperwork for field trips that weren't being done. He's going to try to get us into the pep rally to hang from the bar *envy that you got to do that*. We've now managed to convince his best friend, and an awesome popular education advisor, to attend nationals with us.
We hadn't been in yearbook except a blurp when we won 2001 national championship. Last year tho a team member was on the yearbook team and got us 2 pages. This year we pursued the yearbook pages at both schools. Our graphics guy created the pages to make things easy for them - doesn't mean they used his page per se, but the pics and words were there for them to use.
This year our superintendent, asst superintendent, and principal attended So Cal Regional, and took a tour of the pits. Thank you to So Cal teams who inspired them from the pits - especially the chairman's award winner from New Jersey.
This year MCHS superintendent attended the So Cal regional. They all met a parent from our team who is in with Boeing, who is working with our retired school district technology director (now on the board of the foundation who handles our money). These power houses have scheduled a meeting now to get a robotics curriculum in our school hopefully by next year, funding for teachers working with robotics' teams, and working towards regional funding!!! The principal is talking about getting a CAD teacher to teach not a machine shop curriculum but a robotics' curriculum (important distinction!!!).
Having heard from Hawthorne team about their robotics' curriculum, we've been inspired and hopefully will be gaining from their expertise about running all of that.
In addition, Hawthorne is sponsored by Disney Imagineering. *short story* Disney Imagineering was so "taken" by the FIRST program, they scouted teams who could benefit from their unique sponsorship. Hawthorne's robots have won their 3rd quality award at So Cal yesterday. Their quality is what attracted Disney Imagineering, who has since helped mentor their classes into awesome classes and opportunities for their students.
So - ta da - thanks to Hawthorne, if I understand it right, Disney Imagineering has now agreed to be a sponsor at So Cal regional for next year.
So our "minimum" regional (no frills) will be much more than minimum next year.