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Re: School problems
To echo RoboMom's reply: do a presentation to the school board, superintendent... the administrators to get them on your side......tell them about scholarship opportunities.....invite them to your regional..... once they are there.....it is so easy to be caught up in the excitement.
Getting teachers - if your team participate in the Chairman's Award.....ask an English teacher for help ..... you may be able to interest this teacher ..... most people have no idea what FIRST is all about or even how it is not just building robots....and touches other academic areas......if your school has an affiliation with the Kiwanis Club or business type organization .....interest those people by learning how to write a business plan.....run a business....and in order to run a business..you control your own accounts...that may solve your money problem.
It is hard to interest teachers to give up personal time to "sit" with the team....but have you thought of support personnel? Sometimes you can interest a non-instructional person to be the team adviser.....we are allow to do that in our school district.....our rules are the team adviser has to be a district employee ....so check on it.
I hope this help...if not email me ....I can try to brainstorm again.
Pat Chen
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