[Matt Goulart]

From talking to different people there seems to be two different types of school involvement in FIRST. There are the schools who become really involved, they advertise it as a good program and encourage teachers and other school faculty to get involved, they help fund the team, give them a space to work, and most importantly recognize all the kids on the team as leaders and really make them feel like what they are doing is important and worthwhile. Then there are the schools who seem to want nothing to do with FIRST, they might give them a closet to work out of and a little funding but they don’t help advertise and they don’t recognize the kids which can make it had to recruit new members. So I would like to try and find out two things with this thread. First if your team is supported by a school like the first school above what exactly dose your school do for your team? Secondly if your team is from a high school like the second school from above what dose your team do to rally support and find new members?