FRC as a school sport

[Shrub]

Originally Posted by cadandcookies

According to the Minnesota State High School League, FRC is a sanctioned varsity level sport. However, letter awards are a high school level decision, so that varies. We've had letter awards since at least 2010, but I know of others who still have utterly incorrigible administration.

As a MN team, the same goes for us, although our match days are never announced (we got to go and announce for State, and our regional finalist win was announced this year) and many people at our school don't consider it a sport at all. Teachers and administration think it's really cool, though, and some people are positive towards it. Sadly most people think that sport = athletic so there's that. I'm pretty sure you can letter in it here though.

[SteveB2977]

We have lettering for our team and work hard to get it recognition = sports.

Starting last year, we convinced the local paper to include our team photo in the newspaper spread that had all the winter sports teams. So right next to basketball and gymnastics, there was the robotics team!

[Jon Stratis]

We've had lettering for 6-7 years now. The team came up with an intense set of criteria to letter, and the school approved it - basically, the criteria helped to show that the students were doing just as much as any sports team at the school, and that lettering wasn't going to be "easy", although almost everyone on the team for 2+ years does manage it. We have a requirement for 2 years or more on the team, and a certain amount of leadership has to be shown (captains, design leads, drive team, scouting lead, pit presenters, etc... there are more positions available than students most years!)

[pastelpony]

We just got lettering this year (team's 4th year.) At first, everyone said we were unworthy of them because all we had to do was "show up." They shut up pretty fast as we brought back more trophies than any other team.

[woudie]

My school recognizes our team as a sport, but we are not 100% we get the same benefits the other teams do from the school, and what is a varsity letter ?

[Kingland093]

Team 4215 has had Varsity letters every year we have been a team (2012 on)
We get our competitions and results announced like other sports teams but we are not considered an actual sport