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

[MagiChau]

I would say Team 85 have very little general population support. This off-season it is going to change. We are trying to be more active than we ever had before to spread the word of FIRST.

We have to convince the principals and teachers (Don't ask why we build two seperate high schools then call them seperate schools even though people go between the two building.)

We have to convince the students. It is a true stereotype that people think they must have some talent or knowledge to be involved in the robotics team. This year a lot of seniors approached the seniors in the team and said, "If we knew earlier about what you guys do then we would've joined."

Sorry that just turned into a rant after I got a shot of FIRST overdose.

Anyways yeah team BOB is working on getting the students to notice our team.

I would say we have good background support though. We get our own area in the school's metal shop to store our FIRST robotics related items. We have the support of a few teachers. We talk to the school board every year about our team is about. We are allowed to host a FLL competition at one of the high schools. The teacher in charge of a computer lab allows us to use the room in the 1st week for designing the robot and examing the FIRST manual on the computers.

Thaine though this is obvious, use every method you can to garner support and recognization from your community. I know this will be hard but if we don't put in a lot of effort we won't ever be like HOT. For the "disturbance" maybe create a petition or something showing that students don't mind that the school's robotics team is working on their robot? I am unsure for it is getting late and I should go to sleep.