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Originally Posted by Celia
That's a shame you have to do it if you aren't interested in it. At least it's switching hands soon =) How long have you been on your team? When I joined, I was torn between joining programming or starting an animation subteam. I like animation, but I'm thinking of switching over my junior year.
I hear you on small teams (We're at ten or eleven. One team in my area has FOUR. Another has 73). Unfortunately, I think it's a bit intimidating for new people, especially freshmen, to come to our meetings. Especially if none of their friends are interested. That's one more reason I wanted to try a more personal approach to recruiting.
--Celia
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I've been on the team since the beginning of last year, my junior year. I was interested in robotics as a freshman, but I only ever heard one announcement about a meeting that I couldn't make. The only reason I'm in robotics now is because I sat next to some one in robotics last year, and he mentioned it to me once. One of my biggest regrets of high school is probably going to be not joining robotics sooner.
I completely agree with the fact that it's hard to get new people to join small teams, because by the end of the season, you're either all enemies (in which case a couple members would have left) or you're all friends. By the last off season competition last year, we didn't even have enough free people (I was taking ACT's and one was working) to have a human player or student coach. We always start off with a lot of people, but we always lose most of them by the first couple weeks of build season. Sorry, I got really off topic.
And as to website maintenence, I don't really mind, because it was an unique experience, it helped my team out a lot, and it doesn't take too much time now that the hard part's done (the making of the website).