Thread: How much does your school support your FIRST Team?
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Re: How much does your school support your FIRST Team?
We're one of maybe three teams in the school that actually wins with any consistency, so we get some respect. It doesn't hurt that the TV classes who do the morning announcements include a lot of MORT kids...
The administration loves us because we win and because we send kids to college. The principal comes to the NJ regional every year on Friday. He was pleased as punch when we came home from Palmetto with the blue banner. I think that it's mostly because of him that we have free range of the entire basement (shops/CAD) every night.
Fellow students know we exist and they know we're pretty good, but I don't think that most people really know what we're about. They know the name and they see the video montages on the morning announcements and they see that we always come home with something but no one knows the game, the rules, or the philosophy behind FIRST. "Is it like battlebots?"
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