How are your teams recognized by your schools?

[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.