What does your school do for FIRST?

[Joe J.]

We get some funding from the schools, room wise we use our teacher advisor's classroom, a big shop class style room with no shop tools. We have to pay for school bus usage (even to travel less than a half hour) and our teacher has to pay for his substitutes from his class budget, but they do grant the students school business absences. The custodial staff has been helpful in letting us in and out of the building. This past year we've been getting more recognition from the schools and district, we had one of the schools principle and the superintendent of schools at our robot unveiling this past year. But on the other hand our with the schools level of involvement we're pretty much free to run things our way, we're just one of the 70+ clubs & sports teams.