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Originally Posted by nonother
This is great news. I'm a junior in high school in New Jersey and I discovered Vex along with a friend in December. Since then we've been enjoying building robots on the weekend. We're excited at the possibility of getting involved with F.I.R.S.T. My only question is: do we need high school support? We are extremely unlikely to get any of it. If not, I hope to be there at the College of New Jersey in December  |
No, but it couldn't hurt. (There was a father-and-son team at the Championship this year that did quite well.)
Go ahead and ask around the science department at your school. Even if you can't find money for it (that's what sponsors are for
) the school support can come in handy elsewhere, such as getting the competition to count as a field trip. On the other hand, don't let that be the only place you look. Church groups, scouts, after-school programs--there's about a thousand different ways to go about it. Hope to see you make it to the competition!