1. How much money do you recive from you school?
-I would say that we get just about a whole lot of ZERO from our school
2. Is Robotics only a club or is it a class with a credit?
- Our team is more like a club that gets a credit, the only reason our so-called advisors got us the credit was so we would be considered a team and therefore we could get more push for what ever, but I refuse to belive that is why they did it. I think it is just so they can make us follow more rules and be less like a team and more like mindless slave drones who have to do STUDY HOURS instead of working on the robot during the six weeks.
3. Who does all the PR for your team?
- At home it is an engineer or two and some students on our team organizes it all, at competitions it is me, who hands out flyers and talks about the robot and how it works.
4. Where does the building take place and where are the team meetings held?
- Our team is lucky enough to have part of an old mill building to work in we call it FIRST-Land because we don't need a escort to go to the bathroom and such we have:
- Common area
- Two mech Rooms(151 and 166)
- Animation room
- Electrical and software room
- Drafting room
- Events room
- All hands meeting area
All of these rooms are within shouting distance of each other so every thing works very well. We usually set up a half field in the common area just to pratice.
5.What is the general attitude of people in your school toward robotics?
- Well first I'll tell you about how big my school is, it holds well over 4000 students and there are 60 people on our team so I would say, Last year at a given time maybe 300 people out of 4000, even knew the school had a robotics team. Including teachers. But for those who know about it they really love it.
6.On a more individual note, if your team group can't decide on something or they are just sitting around lazy, do you try to get the group to work or do you just do things yourself?
- I myself try to get every body to work on it, but there are other people on my team who just try to do everything at once and won't let anybody else near the robot. this particular person also builds small robots in his spare time. If he reads this he knows who he is.
7.Last, who works with your team, Physics teachers, mechanical engineers, math teachers, art teachers, parents, etc?
-On our team(Just 151 not sure about 166) we have: Rough estimates)
- Machine shop with like fifteen machineists (sp?)
- Three drafters
- Two mech eng.
- One software eng.
- One animation eng.
- Twenty or so parents who help out with there kids particular disipline
- Two advisors which I will openly say that I REALLY REALLY do not like.
- We had two cool physics teachers but they quit cause they were getting flacked for stuff they could do nothing about
I hope this has answered all the questions asked, and have a nice day
P.S Any questions about what I have said just post a reply and i'll answer them.