Thread: How much does your school support your FIRST Team?
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Re: How much does your school support your FIRST Team?
Not very much unfortunately. Our Rookie year, we were not even recognized as a school team and were pushed off to the side as only an afterschool activity. Luckily, we had teachers and mentors that cared enough to sponsor and push our team to the top.

We are an IT school and yet our own principal dislikes technology and does little to support our extensive IT facilities such as our ~400 3GHZ computers that the IT students and teachers devote time to maintain. Robotics originally was supported by only the IT coordinator and the IT department teachers along with students. After our RotY win at Championships, our school has given us a much better status of a fully recognized team, as well as our own display wall and expanded usage of facilities.

Hopefully this next season we'll enjoy the same privileges of other school teams and get the recognition we worked so hard for last season.
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