How you know when your team has respect from teachers

[machman-2823]

Just thought id add this as a different kind of "UK your Addicted to FIRST when..." meme, if you have a better name, plz say it!


When your physics teacher won't give you a test on newton's laws, but says your team breaks them.

[AaronLeondar]

You know your team has respect from teachers when there is a mandatory assembly on a weekend just to watch the livestream of your team's competition.

[Peck]

you know your team has respect from teachers when classes start waving projects during build season saying you get full credit if the robot ships.

[treffk]

When they dedicate a day to take the team to an event because the coach(another teacher) decided to get married that weekend.

[Alpha Beta]

• When your head football coach mentions your team to ESPN.
  http://espn.go.com/college-sports/re...summit-west-mo

• On behalf of Team Driven (1730):
  When your Principal is the main contact for your hugely successful off-season event. http://cttd-robotics.com/pages/contact_us

[Nuttyman54]

When you are given keys and free reign of several science classrooms for use as meeting and work space after-hours.

971 doesn't have a lab or classroom of their own to work in. In fact, the only space that belongs to the team is a table in an interior hallway of the science wing, and a storage closet. Several science teachers give the team regular access to their rooms, and their support has increased since we started working out of the science wing in 2004.

[LemmingBot]

When 'robots' is an appropriate and accepted excuse for turning work in late.