Do any schools recognize their FIRST teams as sports?

[EddieMcD]

Don't even get me started on the whole sports-in-the-high-school thing. Yuck! (Can you tell I am *NOT* a sports person?)

Dean would be proud of you.

Anyhow, Wayne, we've been around 7 years as prettymuch a club. Despite the competitions we've won, and on 3 consecutive occasions, coming very close to taking the nationals, the school very rarely recognizes us. We at one time had a shop teacher, metals teacher, and the head of the Science Dept. working with us. We never got much attention. And it will be a while before we get the deserved attention. You are right; it's a moving process. Publicity is the major thing, and despite numerous attempts to educate non-FIRSTers about the competition, it very rarely does anything for us. You know what's sad? If someone from our school entered the Battlebots competition and got eliminated the first round, they'd probably get more attention than us. It's all a publicity thing.

"It's really something when a FIRST team does much better than the football team." -forget who said that, but it's true

I guess FIRST will remain "Middletown High School's best kept secret".