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Well, let's see, next to nothing, the only ones who are supportive are our janitors (quite a unorthodox source of support might I say), and some of the other science teachers in addition to our sponsor. We get most of our funding from local corps and little businesses and the 2 or 3 fundraisers (not really used to raise funds, but more to "raise awareness", since we make very little from them- sub-$500- for a lot of work). Last year, we wanted to build a shed like the sports that our school sponsors, but the admin shot it down. We attempted to bribe our principal with a XXL team t-shirt specially ordered for his horizontally challenged physique, but that failed. What made it worse was they built a shed thingy in that exact location for some unknown purpose.
I jsut feel like most FRC teams are just undervalued in their schools as opposed to the "state championship baseball team" or the "all conference tennis players" , I wish it was as easy as "raising awareness" in the community to get more support, sometimes, people are just indifferent....