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.