Re: Presentation to the school?
 

Alot of great ideas are already floating around here. I would have to agree, put on your Marketing face. First you must do an assesment of your team needs. Once you find out what type of people you need, then focus on those classes. For example, we need people that specialize in filming and photography so we steer our advertisements towards the Audio Visual Department. We needed people to give presentations to potential sponsors so we go after the DECA, Drama and AVID departments. We focus on the Creative Writing classes for doing the award submitals, the wording on all of our literature and website. We look at the economy and accounting classes for our Finance Department.

Like it was stated earlier, know your audience. Show them that it's not all about just building a robot. A lot of people think that the team is all cutting things, drilling things, and connecting things. With some people you have to focus on the support side of your team. Another way is have them be your guest at an actual competition. When I first came on as a mentor, it didn't really hit me as to how big this thing was until I went to the Regionals here in San Diego. It blew me away as to how huge it is!!!! I never heard about Robotics until then.

I wish you good luck and keep us updated!