I need everyone who recieves varsity jacket lettering to post here!

[yodameister]

Our team is now recognized as an academic sport (effective this year) and our members are eligible for the letter and pin.

On a side note, those schools that are a sport (academic or otherwise), what do your pins look like? Our athletic department is looking and hasn't found anything suitable yet.

[Taylor]

Originally Posted by yodameister

Our team is now recognized as an academic sport (effective this year) and our members are eligible for the letter and pin.

On a side note, those schools that are a sport (academic or otherwise), what do your pins look like? Our athletic department is looking and hasn't found anything suitable yet.

We use the FIRST logo patch - $3 apiece. It's linked through usfirst.org -> merchandise

[artdutra04]

We're finalizing requirements for varsity lettering to begin this season; our school district did not seem to have any preliminary issues with our decision, as the marching band already awarded 'varsity letters' to its members.

[AndyB]

We get the same letters but we aren't supplied with jackets. But I'm pretty sure they count as the same varsity letters that one would recieve from athletics.

[rfolea]

Team 1746 has Letters. We have minimum participation standards, etc. We are considered an academic competition.

The team members get a letter the first year nad chevrons each year after.

We also have a team logo patch we give the kids.

[dubious elise]

Originally Posted by AndyB

We get the same letters but we aren't supplied with jackets. But I'm pretty sure they count as the same varsity letters that one would recieve from athletics.

To expand on Andy's comment - our school, as some of you have previously mentioned, has also considered issuing letters of a modified design or inverted color order for 'non-athletic' letters (chess, orchestra, robotics, math, etc.). As far as I know, this has not been done and we continue to be eligible for the same varsity letters at the end of the year.

Good luck in your endeavor!

[santosh]

We have patches for our club and we can buy the same jackets and all.
Our basketball coach who coached the east last year in the McDonalds High School All-star game fully supports our team as well as our athletics director who is considered the best baseball coach in the state of Georgia. You gotta try and get some of the coaches on board with knowing about your team an appreciating your team.
These two bought into the idea because they realize how much time and work it takes to build one of these robots and they realize that when you compete, you represnt the school, your state, and even sometimes your entire country. Most FIRST teams put in as much time as some athletic teams at our school.
I think that if you can show your director how much work and effort you put into, you may have a really good shot.

[Athleticgirl389]

The school does not give us letters or patches or anything. So last year, I got the team our own varisty patches, which the parents LOVED. I currently have mine on my varsity jacket. Most of the students don't have a jacket (cause they didn't do a sport) so they just have the patch, and it's pretty nice too. Hopefully seeing all these students who receive a robotics varsity patch and that they don't a jacket to put it on, will help the school see how much they should really see us as a sport. To get the patch, the parents have come with a citeria... ammount of hours you put in, competitions you go to, fundraising, etc.

[Fritztopher]

Our school only seems to give out letters to VHSL (Virginia High School League) sports, so robotics doesn't qualify. I don't really care, though, since my cross-country letter just collects dust anyway. I get the same experience whether I get a letter or not, and I have plenty of other things to worry about, so I find complaining about not getting a letter for my involvement in robotics is a waste of my time.

[billbo911]

I posted this up almost two years ago. It is in fact considered an academic letter. None the less, it is a letter worn proudly by every member of the team.

[savage301]

On my old team 301 we got the same letters as all the sports. After we merged teams, my new team 1250, at a different school, gives out letters that are different than athletic.

[Kelli Fultz]

234's Jackets are specifically designed for robotics. So, they aren't the same as the sports jackets..They are embroidered with the team logo on the back instead of actual "letters", too.

[Brad Voracek]

At our school you get one "letter" and then you can sew on everything you letter in onto that letter. So a typical letter for a robotics student may have a gear (our symbol we get to sew on) and two bars, then the academic symbol and two bars. =P

[MattLi]

Team 245 has had a recent breakthrough on the subject. On saturday febuary 3rd, a Michigan congressman decided to come to our machine shop and check us out. When the superintendent heard that a congressman was showing up, he decided to make an appearance (finally after 4-5 invitations, I don't know if the congressman had anything to do with it). The congressman told the superintendent that this was a great program and something should be done to expand it. He offered to give us a varsity letter for robotics. So team 245 will be reciving varsity letters soon.

[prettycolors91]

67 gets their varsity letters after one year on the team, and they're the same jackets/letters as all the other sports.