[Just a Mom]

Getting started at a school can be frustrating but don't give up. Ask the school board if you can get on their agenda. Get a few other students to join you and do a presentation about what FIRST is and the benefits it brings to the school. If you can get the school board and the superintendant to back you things will be easier. Make it clear to teachers that you approach that they don't personally have to know how to build a robot, that is what the engineers are for. If you have a brief, clear presentation of what would be expected you will make better progress. Don't wait to approach companies. If you can go to the school board/principal/teachers with a corporate sponsor already lined up and engineers ready to help it will be hard for them to say no. Good luck.