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

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Originally Posted by Phreadumb View Post
I have to say that over the four years our robotics team has been in business that we are getting more recognition little-by-little. Hey, just recently we've been able to get a showcase to put our awards in. Previous to that our accomplishments have always been but on announcements, some classmates and teachers ask us how we've done, we've participated in a local parade, and have done other school related events.

But not much of that has actually has sunk through the minds of many because .01% of the student population participates in robotics (6 of 600).

However, I propose an idea to generate recognition and get more students. Some of you have talked about others in school viewing your machines in shock and awe as they are demonstrated. Well, shock and awe does not work on high school aged students to get them interested in robotics (for the most part). For most of them, their high school dreams have already been set on being in some athletic team or another extracurricular activity. But why? Well, when these same people were of elementary school age, their minds were way more impressionable and viewed these activities in shock and awe, and it became their dream to make touchdowns and whatnot.
So, exposing robotics to the young students will inspire them to join your robotics team, and ultimately have them dream about becoming science and technology heros.
We don't have to get people to dream about science and technology. At the very least I want people to recognize and be inspired by science and technology. One way to do this is show how it this robotics team is fun to be in People can have a sports dream and be in the robotics team since it happens every now and then.

It looks like you are off to a good start if you gain some recognition steadily. You could perhaps double your team repeatedly even if your attempts reach out to the other students :O

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