School Yearbooks

[Jessica Boucher]

When I was in HS (back in the day!!!), all the major clubs were given a group yearbook photo, and then every so often the team was also given a page to put candids and build/competition photos on. The seniors are also allowed to submit any photo they choose for the color montage pages, and we thus have a good number of competition photos in the color area We were also allowed to have 1/4 of a page for a personal bio, and many of the seniors had robot photos tucked in there as well (I know I did!).

My personal favorite group photo was in 2001, when it just so happened that we were taking the photo in the same room that we kept our playing pieces in....so we dragged them over and took the picture on them. There's about 6 of us sitting on the bridge (tilted, not balanced), and then one of our kids was in the goal, with everyone else surrounding the pieces.

[KyleGilbert45]

For my 4 years of high school our school featured us in usually a 1 or 2 page spread with pictures and some text explaining what we do and how we did. They were really good because usually a Tkat member is the one who did the page. Once I get some free time today i'll scan the page out of my yearbook from last year and throw a link in this post.

[Ashley Weed]

My high school put in a small wallet sized snapshot of all its groups within the school in the yearbook. I recall every year except for one I think that made the book for the Robotics team. However, there are several other schools on our team and I cannot say if all of them are/were granted yearbook space.

[Joe J.]

I'm not sure how getting in the year book work. But we got a full page last year. But the PCE-P is made up of 3 high schools on one campus. So we have a combined year book. And every club and team gets a full year book page so it ends up being over 500 pages in full color. It's kinda crazy if you think about it.

[Gadget470]

(Note: "we" denotes team 247, which I was a part of until I joined 470)
At Berkley (Team 247).. we were hardly recognized by the school, let alone the yearbook. I believe in 2000 there was nothing, 2001 had a blurb, and 2002 we were mixed with Video Production.. along with all team member names spelled wrong, false statements, and the most unproductive "team member" had the only quotation.

Last year, my girlfriend was on yearbook staff and because of my involvment with FIRST chose to take on the page. She got FIRST a full 2 page spread about the FIRST team and the FIRST team alone. Was really nicely done, and since I could review it, the facts were straight. (I got the final quote, too).

[KTBSPASonya858]

We did our yearbook page a few weeks agom we have a team page then one the team working and goofing off then an Ad for our team., and all of our pages are in color.

[Redhead Jokes]

Captain Marygrace finally got hold of a yearbook person today, and their deadline is this mon, so she was reluctant until she heard our student graphics person already has a page ready. They want it on disk by 5p today so they can edit.

Heads up to all teams out there - pursue the yearbook page early and each year. It's a good thing for your team and FIRST.

[tkwetzel]

Our team gets a two-page spread in our yearbook, as all of the sponsored clubs do. It shows several pictures and has a few short paragraphs about what we do.

[Pierson]

Every club at our school receives a B&W group shot.

They joy is that because we are robotics, we take our own picture (digital of course) and then proceed to take it into Photoshop, add the people who were missing, change the background a little bit, and do some other minor modifications.

This year, our yearbook staff is doing something a little bit different, they are doing club spotlights: For the major clubs on campus, Robotics, Habitat for Humanity, (I run both of them), etc... each have either 1 or 2 page spreads with lots of pictures. Their deadline was before Christmas, so we have 2003 competition pictures and other pictures from the fall.

[Kaelia]

We've got a two page spread in our yearbook. Pictures and text...whee!