"Robotics" Team or Club

[rees2001]

340 is both a club and a team. For the "off-season" months we meet weekly as a club after school & sometimes on weekends. During the season & at competitions we are a team. What does this really mean, nothing. Our school does not put much emphasis on team letters or jackets.

The school gives us work space, and freedom & support to do what we do.
2 years ago they built a MST (math, science, technology) wing on the school that is really just Tech & Robotics.
Currently the school pays 2 teachers to run the team. Next year & beyond it will be 3 teachers.
We have been recognized at sports pep rallies.
Our team has gotten more press in the school news letters and on the school website than any sports teams.
They host our team web site.
Our students get internship credit for their hours.
Our students are excused from classes to attend competitions.
In tough times the school has given us money(when we had no corporate sponsor or little sponsorship).
In good times we would never ask.
We don't try to go to multiple Regionals + Championship, we don't believe that is the point of the team.
When we need the school they support us, when we don't need them they support us even more.
These are tough times for education budgets, we believe it is better to just not ask unless we need to.
Over the past 6 years we have built a successful relationship with our school district.

I have left out a ton of what goes on around here I just don't have the time.