[Matt Krass]

Hello everyone,

I feel it only fair to warn you, this may be a long post. I am posting because of the apparent demise of F.I.R.S.T Team #263, Sachem Aftershock. The teams advisors had to leave due to personal issues and left us without teachers. We cannot operate out of our school without faculty supervision. We have asked several other teachers to take us on and some have agreed, however now it seems the school district doesn't want us to restore the team. Our district last year had two high schools, actually it was technically one school with two separate campuses. One held 9th and 10th graders, the other held 11th and 12th. In the senior campus, we held robotics, but anyone in the four grades could join. Now we are two high schools, separate buildings far from each other. A lot of clubs were eliminated because they couldn't be run at both schools. Since we know it would be overkill to run two teams we wanted to run it as run team between two schools. I know this has been done before in F.I.R.S.T. Our school isn't being very cooperative however and we fear the damage may already have settled. We're planning to attend the next board meeting to discuss it, Does anyone have any better suggestions?