Well I have to admit, most of the people on our team are geeks. I think that it's a title of honor considering it might as well be "boss" or "head supervisor" or something along those lines.
As far as school support goes, we're a district-wide activity with students from 4 local high schools. THe school that our main mentor teaches at with engineering courses and such brings in most of the team membership, but at the other schools we're fairly unknown. We're vagabonds, we've never had a perminent build site. The district supports us a lot by paying our entry fee, but we're still not getting a whole lot of recognition. Working on that. They'll give the lacrosse team a party for going to state, but it's still hard to get something for our team after winning 2 regional championships, and getting semi-finals this year. Guess it's just not a real "team compitetion" Oh well, we'll be working on that
