#MakeItLoud - at home

[Taylor]

I was fortunate enough to view the screening of Underwater Dreams at the Championship event, I got to hang around for the Q&A after the show. Something that Fredi said really stuck with me, and I'd like to discuss it with you all.

Mr. Lajvardi jokingly mentioned there is an inverse-proportional degree of fame with 842 and proximity to Carl Hayden High School. He and his colleagues have been on vacation, far away from home, and people strike up conversations with them because they are recognized or are wearing Falcon Robotics shirts. Yet, at home in Arizona, they're largely ignored - or taken for granted.

Which leads me to the question - why? Here we've got a World Woodie Flowers Award winner, working with a World Hall of Fame team, with what appears to be a very supportive administration, team members who have been featured on CNN and ABC specials, two films this year, the cover of Time Magazine - yet are anonymous in their own hallways.

What has your team done to raise awareness and pride around your school and hometown? What can we do to lift up others in our communities? How is it that our brethren can be featured at the front of the Thanksgiving Day Parade, yet half the student body doesn't know we exist? Or why?