How are your teams recognized by your schools?

[Ian Curtis]

Originally Posted by brinoc

Hey!

We are working with our high school to recognize our robotics team more. We were wondering in which ways other schools recognize their FIRST teams. Do they give letters or anything like that?

If you could respond it would be really helpful

Thanks!

-Cici

Bring your superintendent/principal to the competition. Pay for them to come. 1276 worked out of a vocational school, and the lead administrator was always willing to give us space because he thought it was a great way to get the kids who wouldn't normally take vocational school classes involved with the voc school. This was fantastic, but at that point the school didn't give us any financial support (although the 1000 square feet of our own space plus access to the shop work floor provided we cleaned up after ourselves was more than generous!)

We brought him to our regional in 2006, and the very next day we had a board of directors eager to put money in our coffers. (Perhaps it is worth noting that in a happy coincidence we also won that regional...)

Any school official who isn't tickled pink by hundreds high school students, and teachers, and parents, and mentors spending their weekend celebrating STEM isn't a school official worth having.