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

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Very few people actually know about the team. The day before the competition we all got to wear our shirts, and most people were asking the 20 kids what the shirt was for. We get one classroom and part of a hall, plus a closet (about 20 square feet) to work on the robot. Most people in my school have no clue that there is a pretty successful team there, or even that three working robots reside in school and three more from my team reside at Boeing (in St. Louis).
Why are so many of you saying "Oh, this one day we all wore our robotics shirts" like its something that you NEVER do? I swear, I wear my robotics shirts just as much as my other t-shirts. Heck, I used to wear them more often then my other shirts.
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Why are so many of you saying "Oh, this one day we all wore our robotics shirts" like its something that you NEVER do? I swear, I wear my robotics shirts just as much as my other t-shirts. Heck, I used to wear them more often then my other shirts.
Some teams discourage their members from wearing team shirts like normal T-shirts.
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Some teams discourage their members from wearing team shirts like normal T-shirts.
What?
Why?
I wear my shirt, knowing these people have no idea what the heck is this, and I'm proud of it!
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Some teams discourage their members from wearing team shirts like normal T-shirts.
That idea scares me. A lot of our team promotion within the student body comes from team members wearing our shirts to school.

However, I can imagine some instances where it would be discouraged. Teams with really nice, expensive, not-made-of-100%-cotton shirts, like 573* and 365, might not want the shirts getting dirty, faded, or destroyed.


*573's schools have uniforms and I don't think it would be a problem for them, but they're one of the first teams that comes to mind when I think of a different type of shirt.
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Re: How much does your school's general population care about your team?

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Why are so many of you saying "Oh, this one day we all wore our robotics shirts" like its something that you NEVER do? I swear, I wear my robotics shirts just as much as my other t-shirts. Heck, I used to wear them more often then my other shirts.
Because every single team shirt I have ever owned manages to get grease/oil/etc stains on it? (Which is unexplainable as I am a programmer, awards represenative, and head scout. I don't WORK in the pit).
I mean, that's all fine and dandy when you're at competition, but wearing a stained polo to school isn't at the top of my list.
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Re: How much does your school's general population care about your team?

I don't think I go a week of school without wearing less than three robotics shirts.

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

Our support is somewhere in the middle, I would think.

The school has provided us our workspace and computers, and we have a few teachers that come to our competitions. I would say that just about the whole school knows we have a robotics program, but it's not that often that someone asks how robotics is going. When we get back from competitions we're normally asked how we did, but other than that most people don't pay much interest to it (other than the enthusiastic team itself!).
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At team 662 our robotics team is district wide. Most people at my school don't even know that we have a robotics team. When I tell them about it they seem to think that it is battle bots or they seem to think that we are all huge nerds which is far from the truth. I find this is the main problem for kids not joining robotics. Do you all find that?

The district pushed us around alittle bit we didn't have a permanant build space for the first 3 years I was on the team. Now we have a good buildspace and they keep giving us money.

Next year we plan to do way more outreach to the middle and highschools so that hopefully more kids will want to join the team, as we lost alot of seniors.
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I don't think I go a week of school without wearing less than three robotics shirts.
Haha, I normally wear one or two a week too! Mine have remained overall clean due to my web/programming jobs, though they do have some holes in the from rogue buttons
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Haha, I normally wear one or two a week too! Mine have remained overall clean due to my web/programming jobs, though they do have some holes in the from rogue buttons
I wear mine whenever I feel the need to have double pockets for stuff
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Haha, I normally wear one or two a week too! Mine have remained overall clean due to my web/programming jobs, though they do have some holes in the from rogue buttons
I generally wear one of my shirts at least once a week. I find this to be a very effective way to start conversations about our team and what we do. Recently a girl at school came up to me and said that she has seen our shirts all over school an wondered how she could get one, needless to say im pretty sure our team has a new member for next season I also understand that some teams can't wear them for different reasons, but if at all possible wear your shirts!!!
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Some teams discourage their members from wearing team shirts like normal T-shirts.

Gee, wonder where you got that idea.

Our team feels that our shirts are too bright and obnoxious so they don't like wearing them.

I wore a 217 shirt to try and prove a point. I don't think they got it.
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Gee, wonder where you got that idea.

Our team feels that our shirts are too bright and obnoxious so they don't like wearing them.

I wore a 217 shirt to try and prove a point. I don't think they got it.
We wear very bright shirts for competitions, but we printed white shirts with the same art work to wear to school. No excuses.
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Gee, wonder where you got that idea.

Our team feels that our shirts are too bright and obnoxious so they don't like wearing them.

I wore a 217 shirt to try and prove a point. I don't think they got it.
Your team has no excuses not to wear shirts to school. I wore your's the other day and kids started asking me where they could get one

On the note of shirts though, 176 has regular cotton polos that are royal blue. A lot of us wear them to school from time to time, but we never really coordinate a day to all wear them together, which I'd really like to do, because it shows how many of us are really involved. Plus it shows we actually exist...
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I generally wear one of my shirts at least once a week. I find this to be a very effective way to start conversations about our team and what we do.
Very much agreed. So far when wearing my team T-Shirt, I've been asked what it's for a bunch of times by my classmates, gotten into a conversation about the team with the lunch server, and found out that one of the bus drivers for our end of the year band trip drove a (Canadian I think) team down to Atlanta. And I've only had one since the first week of regionals this year
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