off-season work/marketing/sponsorships

[copperhead47]

hey guys! i was jsut wonderin how to make or develope a team that has a high capacity for GP, alot fo sponsorships, publishings, invovled in its society... etc. like- how do we get our message out and be more like a business rather than jsut a whole bunch of HS kids with power tools that builds a fairly good robot every year (i know i know i bragged a little bit) but yall know what im getting at. like what needs to be done in order to be contenders for business model awards and chairman's awards and the like... i know these sort of things happen over years, but next year is my senior year, and the representative from our HS (chuck DiVincenzo) is always focused on the robot and not the business or GP aspect of it. and im worried that our team can never measure up to CyberSonics or Royal Assault (philadelphia Regional Participants) i think that alot of teams can bebefit from them fi they look at their models and image. Im sure that everyone is after the same thing too, jsut lookin to have a freindly image while building the best robot. Granted its very tough. so kudos to the teams that can do that (such as 399 from california- they hav a good well known image, and they arde very involved- they flew out from CA to the Phil. Reg. and the people i talked to from that team were very freindly. you know they have so mcuh influence- they were one of the teams that visited with their Senator which was very cool) anyway- im off on a tangent. I could go on and on about the teams that i saw and how impressed i really am. any ideas or advice or help would be very cool. thanx