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Originally Posted by Rachika Garcia
The plan is that you have as many members on your team join the other clubs. This way robotics has a hand in everything. Then it will also be easier to pull strings when you need it the most. Other clubs can always make "donations" to robotics; all you need is a little more than half of that club be in robotics then you got it made.
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actually, this does not fare well for all other clubs.
For example, there are a few students on our Robotics team that are also in our Festival Jazz Band. In 2005, there was a trip to Boston for the Berklee Jazz festival. this festival was the same day as the Saturday of the UTC regional. Being the driver of 177 I opted to go to the UTC regional instead. however, I did not have a happy jazz band director after that one.
Doing a lot of clubs is always a good thing, but with robotics being such a big time commitment, sometimes there are scheduling conflicts. I already know that we have a band trip to Virginia the same week as the Championships in 2007...
Some teachers are really supportive of the robotics team because of what it does for students, and how much of a learning experience it is inside and outside of the classroom.
On the other hand, some teachers are not supportive and think that schoolwork should always come first and academics is more important.
As a whole, our school is not very supportive of the robotics team, yet there are induviduals who support us a lot. Our school's principal makes sure that he goes to the Hartford regional every year on his own time to see us compete. He also came to see us off before we left for Atlanta and watched the web cast as much as he could. This kind of support is personal and I know our team appreciates it when he is there.
Because there are a lot more students on our team now than in the years past, we have made a bigger impact in our school. And after every competition that we attended, there was an announcement over the intercom giving the student body an idea of what we have done. Unfortunately, we started to get a lof of schoolwide attention because of the fact that we won competitions, not because of what we were doing.