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Re: Most active/popular team roles
It's hard to really say which subgroup is most popular with us... they all seem to get new recruits fairly easily. We come up with a project for our two-week summer session that lets them work their way around to each subgroup, and then have something to take home and keep (this year it was a simple little driving robot that would turn when you clapped). That gets them a little exposure to every group. In the fall, we tell them to start thinking hard about which group they want to be in, and we try to give them more real-world exposure working on the previous year's robot. By the time we get to the build season, everyone's decided where they want to go, and we ask that they stay in that subgroup for the remainder of the season. So far, we haven't had to do any shuffling around past that - the subgroups have ended up good sizes without any extra effort.
I'd say the absolute most popular are those groups that get to actually "do" stuff - electrical and mechanical. At the end of the day, they can look at the robot and point to what they did. It's not really the same with programming... and for us, "everyone" is on the PR team (as PR is more or less separate from actually building the robot, and at competition a lot of your PR comes from the pit crew), although we only have a few people dedicated to it.
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