Banners are up at school

[jspatz1]

Support for FIRST Robotics from school administrators, or the lack thereof, seems to always be a topic, so we want to hold up the great support we enjoy from our school and district. The new principal at Lee's Summit West High School insisted that our banners be up for the new school year, and paid to have duplicates made so that the originals could remain in our build site (newly provided by the district last year.) They are prominently dispayed in the most public location in the building. Thanks Dr. Sharp!

[Anupam Goli]

What an awesome administration! I personally would love to have our banners hang in the front of the school instead of them being placed next to our physics classroom, but hey, at least they're hung up

Excellent job guys!

[Camren]

Both of the high schools administration staff in our district have refuted hanging banners 3081 got their Regional and State trophies in a case but both 3081 and 2470 did not get their banners hung. 2470 has been trying since 10k lakes in 09

[Akash Rastogi]

Good to see school admin with their priorities balanced.

Congrats!

[mrmummert]

Our Schools admin lost ours from 2006...its still a sore spot with me.
Its supposed to be in the school somewhere, but no one knows where it
is. For all i know it might have accidently gotten thrown out.

[Alpha Beta]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

Good to see school admin with their priorities balanced.

Congrats!

Speaking of balanced...

Our high school football team played on ESPN yesterday, defeating the reigning state champions 23-0. In typical ESPN fashion their website had an article previewing the match-up. Check it out here.

When searching for an interesting tid-bit to mention about the school the reporter remembered talking to the head football coach a year ago about the robotics team and included this in the article.

Bet you didn't know: As good as Lee's Summit West is in football, the school's robotics team is considered one of the nation's elite.

I'm not sure the rest of the robotics world would consider us one of the nation's elite yet... but having our school and head football coach publicly mention it certainly helps with recruiting and demonstrates the cultural status the team has earned in our school. Thanks coach Boehm.

Edit: Just realized that there was nothing in this thread that used the key words Team Titanium or FRC 1986 and wanted to help our new team members searching our history on Delphi find this thread.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Alpha Beta

I'm not sure the rest of the robotics world would consider us one of the nation's elite yet...

Ssshhhhh!!! I'm hoping you guys fly under the radar for Fantasy FIRST!

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by EricH

Ssshhhhh!!! I'm hoping you guys fly under the radar for Fantasy FIRST!

They've been regional winners and Championship first round picks for three years running. They're elite in my book.

(Though it wasn't as successful, I still love their 2009 robot)

[dodar]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

They've been regional winners and Championship first round picks for three years running. They're elite in my book.

(Though it wasn't as successful, I still love their 2009 robot)

Are they extremely good, yes. I wouldnt consider them elite until they win and be consistent early picks at champs for 5 years. There are alot of teams that are regional winners and early picks for trends of 2-3 years at a time; but it is a select few who can do it after the "changing of the guard" after sending off those 4 year students.

I do see 1986 joining the class of elite teams in the next year or so because of the uptrend of quality of robots and quality of robot productivity at competitions.

[Jay O'Donnell]

I'd say 1986 was a top 15 team this year IMO.

Anyways, back to the original post, very cool display! Our team has a small trophy case and we don't have anywhere to display our banners in the school. Congrats guys!

[jspatz1]

Just to clarify since it was mentioned, we were #3 captains at champs in 2010 and 2012, not draft picks. 4th pick in 2011.

[Jimmy Nichols]

Our school would only hang banners if we purchased, from our own money, the official banners in the school colors. We chose not to have banners hung.

They are currently being displayed in the store front of our space at the Cincinnati Mall.

[SharonO]

Very cool Team Titanium! You guys keep raising the bar a little higher and higher all the time, don't you? If qualifying for elite status has anything to do with how many teams follow you to see what you come up with next, count 3528 among your numbers.

Sharon
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[ehochstein]

Originally Posted by Camren

Both of the high schools administration staff in our district have refuted hanging banners 3081 got their Regional and State trophies in a case but both 3081 and 2470 did not get their banners hung. 2470 has been trying since 10k lakes in 09

To clairfy, our administration said they would put our banner up... In the basement where no one would see it.

They are also making us pay to put up our trophy from 2009!

[rachelholladay]

Wow its awesome that you have that level of support from your school and its clear you have more than enough banners to hang. I can agree with the above posts in that I'm still trying to convince my school administrators to lets us display our trophies in the school. We're more decorated then most sports teams and in a shorter period of time, why can't we get our space!