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Re: How much does your school's general population care about your team?

Support? Recognition? That's a joke, right?

Our team's coach is also the Robotics teacher at our high school, so during build season he gives us the shop and tells us to just put the important stuff in a closet during the day (so the P.E.T. class won't get to it). But from the rest of the faculty? The principal? No.

The general population of our school doesn't know the team exists. Those who do assume it's that nerdy thing some of the geeks do after school. They don't understand or care about the scope of FIRST. The school doesn't announce our wins or our game times like the rest of the school sports. A few teachers know about us and think it's a "cool idea", and all of the technology teachers are in on it with their support (and use the tech classes as a pool to draw new members from), but they don't tell their general students about it.

And our coach has a really hard time getting the days off to go to competition. (I've heard Robotics isn't being counted as a school-excused absence for students, but I'm not sure about that one.)

HOWEVER,
Our coach is one of the most amazing people in the world, ever. He has some how convinced the school to let our Robotics team members get a Varsity Letter in the sport. The requirements probably sounded absurd the the faculty, but they're not that bad. (150 hours of team time, 15 hours volunteer time, go to at least one regional, mentor a FLL team) And our coach has also made a deal with another one of the Tech teachers who is also a soccer coach. If Michelangelo (our robot this year) can beat a varsity soccer player in a kick off at the end-of-the-year assembly, then Michelangelo gets a soccer varsity letter. Which is way cool.
(We love you Sal~ Thanks for helping us find support!)
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