[ehochstein]

At our school, we barely get a room some years we have a room to build in, but at the end of everyday everything needs to be taken out of it, otherwise some of our build parts will be stolen by the class that is in there the next day. We only have support by one of our science teachers at the school, and we just got a new Engineering teacher this year, and he seems to be a little enthusiastic about robotics. Our school officially gives us nothing, yet seems to come up with 10k for the debate and speech teams, yes that means both of those teams get 10k each for a total of 20k... Even after we won the Minnesota regional, the school barely acknowledges us. We got some certificate and then we were pushed back off into the corner again where we don't get any support. They tell us "We want you to be part of our school, but we don't want to give you anything you are completely on your own, as a matter of fact we would rather use your money for other programs." When they told our sponsor that, we almost didn't have a sponsor this year because they were deeply offended by almost not getting to choose where their money goes.