For Teacher’s Pet Night in middle school I had to fight with the principal to get the robotics team recognized. This was an all-female robotics team with a female coach (cough me) who won two local trophies and a national trophy-more than the school had ever won before by a single team, and the first national trophy. They still didn’t make it into the printed program because she “forgot”. I think they need to dispense with these “awards” ceremonies-the kids know they’re a joke, they thought I was crazy to fight for them to be recognized because “we already know we won”.