[nobrakes8]

My advice is play a fall sport and/or spring sport and to be organized. If your school is the main school on your FIRST team, then it's both your robotics advisors and coaches who should understand you need to do certain things like go to robotics compeitions, show up on kick off, make an appearence at robotics 2-3 days a week and maybe need to leave practice early those days. Your robotics advisors need to understand you need to be at games, practices, conditioning training, etc.., and I'm sure the coaches and advisors in MOST cases would be understanding.

I'm almost anal retentive with my organization as far as how I spend time. I work everyday, participate in the Co-op program my high school has avaible, I also am active in NHS, president of our SkillsUSA chapter, cross country captain, and maintaing a 2nd rank in my class.

NHS and SkillsUSA I only attend meetings during school hours, with the exception of the SkillsUSA Championships and NHS trip to NYC (good free food).

I work everyday, I'm just lucky my school has a program that allows juniors and seniors to leave school during the school day while in shop (tech school.. we go half the year in our shop half in academics). I would work until 2:30, go to school and practice whatever sport I was playing that season. During robotics I would work from 9-4:30 during my shop period or 2:30-5 during my academics, then go to robotics for 6pm, and prioritized robotics over working at the school open house and other SkillsUSA and NHS activities.

If you have understanding people surrounding you and know how to organize your time wisely you can effectivly compete in sports, robotics, and be in any club that you choose at your school.