[JABot67]

At my school, Milford High, the HOT Team does get a lot of recognition. We make sure the student body knows about us by making them sit through long videos on the announcements about who we are and what we do. A lot of us like to wear HOT gear to school. The teachers often congratulate us after we get back from a competition, and my friends at school often ask me how we did and things like that. With our robotics team being our school's most successful team, there are a lot of new people that want to join every year, but are unwilling to do the 25 hours of team-sponsored events - road cleanups, river cleanups, FLL competitions, a triathlon, and much more - required to be on the team roster for Atlanta.

When we nominated Lori Gleason for the Michigan FIRST Teacher of the Year award, several of our computer teachers had their entire classes vote for Mrs. Gleason online for several days. This coordinated voting gave Mrs. Gleason three times as many votes as any other contestant for Teacher of the Year.

So I'd say our school's general population cares somewhat about our team. Not as much as football, or most sports anyway. But in general, they don't know what we do, but they know that we exist and that we are good.