I must say, seeing as we are a rookie team, we are actually quite well known in our school. People have asked me about the competitions and what we do after hearing about the team on our school announcements. Our school district has given us quite a bit of exposure, with our picture being on the school district website (which everyone must go to in our school to get onto the internet), saying our results on the daily annoucements, and allowing our local paper to write a feature article on our team and the Technology and Engineering Club as a whole. (our FIRST team is just one part of a much larger club that involves TSA, FIRST, and a few other tech related subjects.)
Probably because I can be identified with the smarter people in the school, a surprising amount of sports guys ask me about the team whenever they annouce something about us or put us on the website. But then again, we didn't really have anything that remotely resembled FIRST before this year, and a lot of people are amazed that we are able to build a robot from scratch.
It also helps that everyone knows the Tech Club as the ones who used to sell Krispy Kremes during midterms and finals... all of the ones near us closed down, so we had to switch to Dunkin Donuts this year...
