Great club...little support

[lallamavolador]

In my school robotics is a small club that is virtually unknown to the rest of the 5000 students. Our school lets the baseball and football teams have many different fundraisers yet they don't let our robotics team sell anything (except candy, the other teams sell bagels and other stuff). I began thinking to myself, I think robotics is much more beneficial to teenagers than most sports. Through FIRST we learn to be competitive, resourceful, and how to work as a team. The main difference between us and every other competition is that FIRST exemplifies gracious professionalism, FIRST teams are not about making fun of other teams and rooting for them to fail, on the contrary we help and cheer for other teams. Yet this club receives little support from our school administration. I wish our robotics team would be supported more by our school. In the yearbook most clubs have full pages with many pictures while we have a tiny picture with over 50 people in it on 1/4 of a page.

I was wondering are any other schools like this?

Has any other team conquered this kind of obstacle and have become widely known and supported throughout the school?