What does your school think of robotics?

[StephLee]

Our team has members from two schools. At my school, the teachers love it, and my friends think it's pretty cool, although I think they get tired of hearing about it after awhile. The yearbook editor loves it, and she's finding space for a ton of pictures. Most people think it's something like battlebots, and they just go "Oh" when I try to explain, though some of them ask how to join. They apparently announced our team at the winter sports assembly, but we were at Chesapeake that week.

From what I hear, members from the other school get pretty much the same reaction from students and teachers, altough the yearbook isn't as into it.

Our school board absolutely loves us. They've promised $10,000 from the budget next year for us, and we had the Superintendant and Assisstant Superintendant at our regional. Some of our mentors are from the board, too.

People already thought I was a geek before I joined robotics, so there's really no difference, there.

[bigboi146]

well in my school people think it is cool. i get props for it almost everyday. the teachers ven give me a break on some homeworks

[EOC]

After a brief survey I have made a list of geeky teams at our school in descending order.

1. Chess Team
2. Scholar Bowl Team
3. Math Team
4. Speech Team
5. Robotics Team

As you an see we have barley cracked the top five. But we will keep trying.

[june_2008]

At our school, the band geeks and robotics geeks (which are pretty much the same people) are pretty much just considered geeks and otherwise ignored by the majority of the student body....

[Nita]

Originally Posted by june_2008

At our school, the band geeks and robotics geeks (which are pretty much the same people) are pretty much just considered geeks and otherwise ignored by the majority of the student body....

A lot of our team members were also in band but most of them quit after their freshmen year due to lack of space in their schedules.

Anyway, my school knows us as 'the people who sell truffles' because that's our major fundraiser.

[Clam]

Originally Posted by Nita

A lot of our team members were also in band but most of them quit after their freshmen year due to lack of space in their schedules.

Anyway, my school knows us as 'the people who sell truffles' because that's our major fundraiser.

Yea, and frankly I am known to be "the truffle seller"

But it's more than just that, some people I've talked to who aren't in robotics think we're a bunch of smart people/ geeks/ nerds/ genieses... u get the idea. And that their intelligence cannot compare and status cannot go down that low to join. But they dunno what they're missing! Seesh!