History of rookie teams on Einstein

[rogerlsmith]

Josh - Congratulations to you and Team 3138 for your outstanding rookie year!

Our team did a blitz of fund raising 2 weeks ago to allow them to travel to Atlanta. They raised enough money for the trip and also secured a few more (what looks to be) permanent sponsors.

There may come a time when we need financial support from our school, but I hope it isn't soon.

We are in the process of setting up our own non-profit organization, and you are right, it is a lot of work.

CalTran - right now we do not have anybody associated with the school that is a part of our team (except for the students). This is really the support I'm hoping to find. In order for us to grow, we need school administrators on our side.

We will be meeting with the school board in a couple weeks and I want to have as much "wow-able" info to take with me. We'll also be promoting FIRST with all of it's great qualities.

Thanks to everyone for their input, it's much appreciated.

[CalTran]

Originally Posted by rogerlsmith

CalTran - right now we do not have anybody associated with the school that is a part of our team (except for the students). This is really the support I'm hoping to find. In order for us to grow, we need school administrators on our side.

We will be meeting with the school board in a couple weeks and I want to have as much "wow-able" info to take with me. We'll also be promoting FIRST with all of it's great qualities.

First, talk to the Industrial Tech, Computer, or Physics teachers at your school. They should be into stuff like that. I think if you take the robot to the school board meeting and give a demonstration of it, it should really help. If they can see what you accomplished, and this was all STUDENT made, that should be a tipping point. A few pictures/videos from build season may help too. I hope the meeting goes well ; we have one coming up too.

[rogerlsmith]

Thanks for all of your suggestions, I really appreciate it!