How much does your school's general population care about your team?

[maverickfan138]

People know that our schools have a robotics team, but that's all they know. The majority of students at our schools think we lock our selves in a closet and bolt metal together for no reason.

We work in a classroom in the back corner of the school and we only get to use about a third of the room. If we want to drive a robot, we have to beg to use the cafeteria. Our school is currently in the process of being redone for the 50th anniversary next year, but due to the economy, it won't be complete. Part of this remodel involved redoing the science wing, which would have included more science labs, a computer lab, engineering and architecture rooms, and a robotics room with access to the cafeteria. This was all supposed to be completed for this past year, but it didn't happen. Our school has now split this wing into three phases over the next three years. The last one is the robotics room.

We are looking into having an assembly, or at least be part of a pep rally where we have our robot shoot some penalty kicks(with multiple balls of course) against our state champion soccer team's goalie. I've heard that a few years ago, the team was able to do this with our Aim High bot and we shot some balls into the basketball hoop and everybody loved it. Hopefully we can do that again.