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

Our team's school is a rather large school in upstate New York (about 700 per class) and we've been competing since 1992. We're a large team of about 65-75 kids each year, but I'd say barely a majority of the school is aware of our existence despite our size, success, and longevity. Every student other than the ones on the robotics team cares more about the football team or the basketball team. It does not help that our school's principal hates our team because we miss school, so we get very little recognition when we get awards or do well, simply a two sentence statement on the announcements for a week which really means nothing because nobody listens to them anyway. It's very hard to make teacher's or the rest of the school enthusiastic about the team when the administration dislikes us, making it even harder to get the community notice. We do our very best to be involved in the community, and we do team outreach activities regularly, at least on a monthly basis.

When I talked to other students from teams at the championships who had won regional chairman's awards, almost all but one of them out of around a dozen said that either their school actively supported them in a significant way or that they went to a math/science/technical school. Being the only original team still around to have never won a regional Chairman's award, it almost makes it feel like it is beyond our control. But in two weeks our team is presenting in front of the Board of Ed of our school district with our robot and were hoping to gain support from them. Any advice for the presentation and how to get better recognition from our school?
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