How are your teams recognized by your schools?

[Chris is me]

Step 1: Get a blue banner.

Step 2: Wave it everywhere until your School Board acknowledges your existence.

We haven't gotten to Step 1 yet, unfortunately.

[Zachary Pilarsk]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

Step 1: Get a blue banner.

Step 2: Wave it everywhere until your School Board acknowledges your existence.

We haven't gotten to Step 1 yet, unfortunately.

getting a blue is hope this year so we can hang it in the gym next to all of the black and gold sports banners

the school board isn't our problem they love us but the itself school refuses to care no matter what we do

[pfreivald]

Inspire by example. Do the best you can, and advertise what it is you are doing to the community. When the community cares, the school will care. (Not everyone in the school of course, but as an aggregate).

[indubitably]

Our team tries to make as many videos showcasing our team as we can so we can at least get airtime on our school's news.

Because of these videos, the team is decently well known to the students and some of the tecnological teachers, but i doubt most of the administration even knows of our exsistence.

[pwnageNick]

Our team isn't actually through our school. We're a community team that has kids coming from 6 different high schools. We focus more on getting the community to appreciate robotics and the educational value it has. We have found that receiving the appreciation of the community is sometimes more important then the appreciation of a school.

[nitneylion452]

Our school gives moderate recognition to our team, but what we do have is pretty impressive considering that this is only our second year of existence. When we first came around there was a giant header on our school's website "Robotics Comes to Judge!" chock full of pictures from the Philadelphia regional. As far as funding, I don't know the specifics of what exactly the school pays for (I'm pretty sure they pay for our pizza, which is sweeeeet) so I won't really comment on that, but we are lucky to have great sponsors.

We get on the school announcements every now and again. Our school doesn't have so great telecommunications and broadcast technology, so our school "news network" consists of a few guys reading the announcements off a piece of paper.

[GaryVoshol]

Sometimes the best you can hope for is that other people in your school actually realize you have a robotics team, let alone recognizing you for your accomplishments.

My wife and I were walking into a school for an off-season event. We were following a small group of cheerleaders or dance team members, I don't know which, down the hall. One wondered why they couldn't practice in the gym that day - because the robotics team had it reserved was the answer. "Oh, we have a robotics team?"

Sigh. This is a team with a low number. They've been around for at least a dozen years. There's still a lot more culture-changing to do.

[Brian Ha]

To answer your question, we have always had varsity letters for robotics, (there club letters still the same but different) and we have started airing meeting times more often on the school news but we are very lowly recognized. Most people don't even know why our shirts only have our numbers on it. It's pretty bad and we do have a little showcase but it's belittled by all the band, football, and cheer leading trophies next to it, and robotics being the last showcase it in the back. Also this year our team finally recognized as their team by finally paying the entry fee, which our team is very happy about. All in all we're sort of recognized not to much but ehh.

[artdutra04]

We have a very positive relationship with our local school district. In a recent newspaper flyer advertising the benefits of our city's school system, one of their five main bullet points they listed was "Nationally Recognized Robotics Program".