What does your school do for FIRST?

[AndyB]

Our team is actually run out of the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. Currently, we get a good amount of financial support by the university ($10,000 next year) by registering the team as an official student organization and running that way instead of through a high school.

We are asked to do a lot of things around town including parades, expos, and demo's for 'prospective student' days.

The only thing we are really lacking currently is space. We build the robot each year in a study area in the science/math/engineering building (sorry to people trying to study), and are given a small area in the basement of the building for storage.

Luckily, next year we will be moving into a brand new engineering building where we will be set up with a building area, a new machine shop, and hopefully, more storage area.

Unfortunately, we receive little to absolutely no support from the area high schools. We have no high school teachers working with the program which makes receiving student participation a lot harder. We are currently working on this.

We do have the ability to rent school vans for transportation of tools and robots but we still must pay half the gas cost I believe.