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

It's interesting how big the range of support is for individual teams.

As for the Killer Bees:

Because our shop is not located in the school, for a long time (back in 2000-2005ish) I don't think many people even really knew about our team. When I was a student, and was looking for a 2003 extracurricular activity to do, someone suggested the robotics team, and I had no clue what it is (and they had just come in second place at the Championship in Orlando in 2001!)

Now we're doing better to spread the word around the school. Some of the ways that we have done this are by:
  • Bringing the robot to math and science classes
  • Demonstrating at freshman orientation
  • Demonstrating at freshman cornroast
  • Participating in Pep rallies
  • Having a booth at the school's Open house
  • Providing fan buses to local cometition (FiM has greatly helped with this, by having district events that are located closer to the school)
  • Awarding a Varsity letter to students who have made a large contribution to the team
  • Wearing our bright yellow team shirts to some sports team's events, like a varsity basketball home game
  • Bringing the robot to show off at lunchtimes in the cafetorium
  • Winning awards at competitions. The school faculty especially enjoys receiving Chairman's trophies.
  • Writing letters to all faculty and administration inviting them to attend our closest event (we had two people show up)
  • Having two of our very own trophy cases in the main hallway of the school.
  • Updating a bulletin board, also located in the main hallway, in the school every season
  • Linking from the school's website directly to our team's website (killerbees33.com go check it out )

All this aside, we are still not as visible in the school as we want to be. There are still many students who think it's a geek club or too nerdy for them. And the administration at the school often tells our students that we should change our name to "The Fighting Irish" (as our school is Notre Dame Preparatory, The Fighting Irish), because they don't comprehend the real life marketing that has gone into our image as The Killer Bees.

Does anyone have any other suggestions to gather more school support?
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