[martschr]

Just a couple of days ago one of my teachers announced that our schools FIRST team won the Bayou Regional, and someone turned to me and said what's FIRST. I said she is talking about Bomb Squad then they knew what she was talking about. I guess is good that we are known at our school, but that is about it were just known not much more than that. It seems to me that many of us have the same story about our school support. Even if the school can't be a big financial supporter it can still provide a lot of moral support, and it can lend its support in other ways. If we want our schools to support FIRST then we will have to make it happen. I think this thread has gotten to the point where we need to start throwing out ideas of how to fix the problem. Some people said they invited their school administration to regionals and got support that way. That is a start our superintendent went to one of our regionals and that didn't change much. What else can we do? This is what FIRST is about spotting a problem and solving it. What ideas do we have to help solve this problem? Not just for us, but for everybody who wants FIRST to grow.