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Re: How much does your school support your FIRST Team?

Our school basically buys whatever we need, though we don't try to push our luck. We have a small but functioning workshop that has every tool we need. We are allowed to stay very late after school, and can come on saturday's during the build period. Robotics is a class, as well as an after-school club, so people hear about it. The school also buys us team shirts and hats, though this year we have decided to trade the hats for sweatshirts.
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Re: How much does your school support your FIRST Team?

1751 receives moderate support from our school district. No financial support is provided, but the team is given 24/7 access to a 15' by 30' working area in a shed near the high school. The administration and school board are enthusiastic about the robotics program.
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Re: How much does your school support your FIRST Team?

my school woodlawn high does not support the team till the team wins a competition. they then support us with transportation.
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Re: How much does your school support your FIRST Team?

NOne what so ever.
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Re: How much does your school support your FIRST Team?

Sadly, our school district does not fund our robotics team in any way shape or form, I think that the only people that get extra money during the robotics season are the maintenance workers that stay later than normal.
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Re: How much does your school support your FIRST Team?

At our school, we barely get a room some years we have a room to build in, but at the end of everyday everything needs to be taken out of it, otherwise some of our build parts will be stolen by the class that is in there the next day. We only have support by one of our science teachers at the school, and we just got a new Engineering teacher this year, and he seems to be a little enthusiastic about robotics. Our school officially gives us nothing, yet seems to come up with 10k for the debate and speech teams, yes that means both of those teams get 10k each for a total of 20k... Even after we won the Minnesota regional, the school barely acknowledges us. We got some certificate and then we were pushed back off into the corner again where we don't get any support. They tell us "We want you to be part of our school, but we don't want to give you anything you are completely on your own, as a matter of fact we would rather use your money for other programs." When they told our sponsor that, we almost didn't have a sponsor this year because they were deeply offended by almost not getting to choose where their money goes.
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Re: How much does your school support your FIRST Team?

Yeah, our school's team is the only FRC team in the county, there are several FLL and Vex teams however. We are lucky to have the support of an excellent, very dedicated mentor who teaches Calc C, the Engineering Design classes, coaches soccer and softball, and teaches nights at a local community college. Our team is only about 15 strong, but we have a great administration who supports 100% of what we do. Teachers are supportive for the most part, there are always exceptions, but getting out of class for building or competition isn't a big deal. Our boosters club gives us a little of money, but most of it comes from our primary sponsors. We are also very lucky to work right in the shop at school, and our working hours are never limited by external powers, ie prinicpal, custodians.
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Re: How much does your school support your FIRST Team?

5,000$

Am I the only one to answer the thread's question directly?
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Re: How much does your school support your FIRST Team?

Where we are, we have about medium support. Many students know about our team and come to Chesapeakes that are not part of the team. But still, like our ice hockey team, the majority of the student population here does not know about us (or even care). However, this is true about a lot of our clubs (though there is a great deal of student participation.) We are about at the level of an athletic team in terms of outside support from the school. Our administrators back us, and actually got us in FIRST in the first place. (Originally, we were a part of #165 early in its history (us, Broadneck, and Severn), and then our Head Mentor decided to pull us out, and when we did not have a Pre-Engineering class, we founded the team to give opportunities to those students.) But as opposed to team spirit. It's mdoerate, though we're doing more stuff for it this year.
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Re: How much does your school support your FIRST Team?

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5,000$

Am I the only one to answer the thread's question directly?
As previously mentioned, the district didn't just handout the $5000, we had to inform our superintendent about our program and its purpose and mission, and lobby hard for it. We are getting $5000 this year, while personnel are losing their jobs, programs are being cut, etc.... We educated them about how important this type of education is in today's society and they agreed.

You want school and district support? Go after it and be tenacious and if you don't get anywhere go to the county and ask for it there (ROP programs love this type of education)!
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Re: How much does your school support your FIRST Team?

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5,000$

Am I the only one to answer the thread's question directly?

Everyone has replied perfectly well. By support I meant both your team's influence in the school, and money def counts as well.
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Yon most kids don't even know that there is a robotics lab in the school. We also have a robotics class, but there is usually no people who do both FIRST and the class.
most kids in our school don't even know there is a tech wing!!!
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Re: How much does your school support your FIRST Team?

Our School is very supportive. We have a highter status than the sport's teams and everyone knows our team Number.
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Re: How much does your school support your FIRST Team?

Our school supports us in every way except financially. This year, we were able to start 2 FIRST Robotics classes in our school. One was designed to tackle the Fundraising and Administration aspect of robotics where as the other one was a Manufacturing class. These classes allowed our Team to do new things like organize a coin drive for underpriveleged families and organize our trip to Phoenix for the Arizona Regional. The teachers are well aware of our program due to presentations made to them by involved teachers and seminars during PD Days. Our student body is aware of us as we have a display case with our trophies and updates in our newsletter.

In terms of finances, our school gave us $1500 for the first 2 years but then all of a sudden last year, gave us no money. They do however give us supply days so the teachers can take time off for the trips. Our school board gave us $7500 the first year, then nothing the next year and last year, all we got from them was a bill for heating and hydro from when we were in the school on weekends!

It is great to walk down the halls of Port Perry High School and see our banners displayed and our trophies for everyone to see. We have our own room for storage which is in a central location. A lot of people are supportive of us and it is awesome to have our administration, staff and student body behind us!
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Re: How much does your school support your FIRST Team?

Here at Mishawaka Indiana, team 135 gets a lot of support from our school "Penn High School." Since the beggining of the 6 weeks, we've been able to work from 3 pm to midnight or sometimes even 1 or 3 in the morning! We have an awesome shop available, and its always available! We've even built a half court playing field for practice! Most of our classmates are very supportive of us, and if they didn't know about robotics, they were always curious to know. Our school board gave us 2,500 dollars " We worked very hard for that money!" through concessions and having "Robotics Night". Our school supoervisor came to the Purdue regional and so did two representatives from the Patrick Metals company. I feel very grateful and fortunate to be supported by our community. We've even extended our outreach program to the South Bend team and we've helped them weld their parts! I do believe that every school should support their robotics teams 100%. Because that's what schools are for right? To educate kids? Things are pretty backwards these days. Best of luck to all of you and see you at nationals



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