Computer Science

[Fishalicious]

Okay, well, at my school, I recently spent sixty dollars on a yearbook. As I looked through it, finding my friends and looking at the sports (which takes up well over half the book) section, and UIL... I noticed there wasn't a Computer Science section.

At our school, we have a few trios of people who go to CS tournaments and win trophies and stuff. I am in one of said trios (or rather, was) and our group came close to winning a trophy.

Our announcements crew (they announce major school events like prom or the bloodmobile) has never once mentioned the fact that the CS teams even exist.

The announcements crew also tells people everytime there's a major softball/football game and what the scores turned out to be, as well as most of the other athletic things. (I'm not saying athletes aren't important, there's no doubt in my mind that stuff's important.) Our soccer team sucks. But they still have devoted fans and the announcements crew forges pep rallies for them and supports them.

The athletes sometimes complain about having to wake up at 6 am on a school day to get on an air-conditioned bus and sleep through school and do what they were naturally successful at while we worked at school with everyone else; the CS team has to wake up at 4 am on Saturdays to go to Houston and participate in our competitions. (I'm not complaining; I enjoy the wee hours of the morning.)

However, no one even knows the CS team exists, and when I pointed out to my friend that they never talk about the CS team, a male athlete told me in his beautiful natural language: "No one cares about your dumb geek teams, that's why they don't talk about them!" Of course, he doesn't like me, but he raised an interesting point: no one really seems to care.

I'm curious, do you think that we deserve to be at least mentioned, or would no one care anyways?

[DW]

This is much the same as what happened with my Knowledge Bowl team, except they announced it so people knew about it, just didn't say if we won and stuff, so people constantly made fun of us 'nerds'. We did really well though. Our Varsity placed first in region and went to state, and our JV would have gone really far if we hadn't been randomly picked to be sacrificed.

What happened was that there were only 10 teams in AAA Varsity, so they took two AA JV teams (don't ask me why they didn't use AAAA, I have no idea) and put them in. Our JV (which I am on) placed 7th, so we beat THREE of the AAA Varsity. So if we had been put in our JV tournament we would have done really well....but we got screwed...

[Rev Rabies]

well... at my school, i am in the chess club and quiz bowl. the only time we ever got mentioned was when there wasnt anything important to announce.

and shikaboose, in chess we dont even have varsity but all the other schools in our district do.

[alical]

Our school's pretty good about stuff like that. We have all these traditions like CCF (combined cadet force) and someone from our school always seems to have shot enough things to win a prize (I like their uniforms though, i tried on this guys jacket and it was huge, i nearly fell over) and there is a chess, business stuff etc.
I dont tend to do anything at my school (sport or otherwise) because there is nothing to do with Art unless you are two year older than me. That is annoying.

But yeah the "stuff that isn't sport" is celebrated a lot less than the stuff that is. Cricket and Rugby are like the gods of my school.

[collaboration]

Whether anybody would care or not, if it exists and is active it deserves to be mentioned. Aaand I dunno, but possibly if it's announced, more people will know about it and thus become interested/care.

[Hi no Seijin]

It's a shame.  The academic competitions can be just as exciting as the athletic competitions.  But at least you have a team.  When I did the Scholastic Bowl my senior year of high school, there was only about five or six people on the team, and only one of them and I went to the practices.  I wasn't sure if there would be a team this year since we had only found one person who was interested, but he was considering going to another high school for some kind of higher education program thingy.  Apparently, they got a team together.