What does your school think of robotics?

[pwilczynski]

Our team comes from a very small school (about 450 people) so most of the people know about us. I would say that there is a large amount of support from administration, respect from the teachers and not much from the students. Because we are such a small school, most of the students who are not involved have at least a few friends who are, so we don't get made fun of much. There are people who call us nerds, but its all in good fun
Overall, we have a pretty supporting school. However, jurisdiction-wise, we are probably the most troublesome group. We aren't a team, with letters or anything, and we really aren't a club. I mean, what club meets almost every day for 6 weeks and sometimes pulls 40+ hour weekends? So in that respect we have a slight problem with the administration in the specifics of what we are allowed to do and where we are allowed to go.