**FIRST EMAIL**/Judges Information for the Team Yearbook

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

The demographics of the school often have little to do with the demographics of the team. A poorer school with a rich sponsor will have better resources than a team with fewer sponsor resources, even if the second school is in the richest community in the state.

This is very true with our team. Wilson Magnet is like two different schools. With the IB program and AP and Honors course. One of the selling points they have to parents who want to enroll their kids is how they segregate the IB kids from the others. Even in homerooms. A good portion of the IB program is mostly white kids and most of the school is black.
The team is mostly made up of IB kids. One of our new students actually was going to pass up joining the team because she thought the team was solely for IB students when in reality it's for all students. Fortunately one of our mentors talked her into to joining and she has been very proud to be an X-Cat.
It's one of the challenges we face having to improve the visibility of the team in school (very hard to do when your facility is on the other side of town and there are just so many display spaces available to tell your story) and have them realize that the X-Cats are good for all of Wilson Magnet.