[Kristina]

I think that our school is pretty supportive of our team. We've gotten $5000 from the school district and the school also donates some money for car rentals, hotel rooms, and our ASB offered to pay for some of the meals when we were traveling. It may not be that much, but they do what they can with the small budget of Cali public schools and its nice to know they care.

Whenever we needed to work afterschool or use the cafeteria for fundraising dinners, etc, our school's been quite accomadating. We also have a lot of suppport from our the "academic assist. principal." She and our physics teacher advisor always travel with our team (even if its Easter Weekend), comes to parent meetings, etc. The faculty's cool too, for our fundraising dinner a lot of them bought tickets even if they couldn't go.

I think a big part of our school support comes from the fact that our robotics team members span diverse crowds with different connections. My friend and I were both on the robotics team and the school newspaper so we had lots of big articles and pictures published front page, go publicity, I think that everyone knows us now! Another guy also does a lot of print shop stuff so he and the print shop helped make all our team shirts free of charge. I was also in ASB so I got some school attire donated to us so we could wear them at competitions and some money donations too.

A lot of people complain that sports took precedence at our school and I guess that's a fair assertation. But I think our robotics team was very fortunate too.