I need help recruiting!
 

Hi, I'm new to this forum so bare with me. My team is fairly small in student number and I need some idea's for recruiting. Any suggestions? :)

Thanks :D

Re: I need help recruiting!
 

Oh. I just noticed the same question asked in another thread... OOPS! :eek:

Re: I need help recruiting!
 

Jin, since you started this thread you can delete it. After a certain amount of time, I believe it's 24 hours, you can't delete it yourself and have to contact (pm) a moderator to do so.
Just to let you know to there is a search function in these forums. Next time if you have a question try searching first and you may find your answer or a thread dealing with your issue you could post your question in.

Oh, and one last thing.......welcome! :) You'll find CD is like one big family.

Re: I need help recruiting!
 

OMG, Is that a GO-BOT?

:sigh:

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Go-bot? Heck no! It's a Transformer! Porsche 935! Yay! Thanks for the welcome.

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Transformer.. Good!! I was going to have to shake you violently and/or smack you if it was a Go-Bot!! lol

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LOL, obviously you haven't seen either show. Yes, TFs FOREVER!!!!!

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tell kids you can go on good field trips and do fun stuff with power tools. works for when i try t recruit people...

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Goodie, maybe we'll start getting some people finally...

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my one answer to this problem is simply this:

showcase showcase showcase.

at a school event or other, show everyone what you can do!

Our team has gotten most of it's members through showcasing our robot and asking support of high school students right then and there.

Re: I need help recruiting!
 

Show the robot wherever you can. Our team show it off during lunch at the beginning of each year, in our school foyer, at the town festival...
It works, trust me. And not only do yo get students, you get parents and engineers. Over our teams 9 year history we learned how important outreach and inreach are in having a succesful team. Im not saying our team is successful, well not on the competition field all that often, but just having a robot is a success in itself. And we have some of the most influential alumni(part of dave's speech at VCU was about team 116 alumni and some of the things they have done). heeheehee, we are the self-proclaimed winless superpower. anyway, reach into your school and community to raise interest in your team, not only for getting more people involved, but it helps chairmans.

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Ching Ching you found me! :yikes: :D Hi, how you doing?

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Well, I'm having a ummmmmmmm... you could say an interesting day. Go read your pm from the team forum you'll get the idea, these ideas are not bad actually. I don't really feel great towards the team. Just need to breath deeply.

Re: I need help recruiting!
 

The greatest way to get lots of team members is to put something in one of the schools newsletters that go to parents and right the word SCHOLARSHIPS in big bold letter. j/k. but it would work.

Start a farm team...err...FLL team. Get them excited when they are young and build a productive flow of new members.

Bribe them...trips, food, all the caffeniated beverages you can drink, and driving robots...what more could you want.

Show them what it is like. Competitions are the most amazing part of the program but hard to explain and show people what they will be devoting all this time to. My best explanation is telling them to imagine putting a couple thousand engineering minds people into one room. We all know engineering types are a little .....well you know, strange. Put this all together and it builds a fun and exciting competition.

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Don't feel great towards the team? Or certain people?