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Re: Help for Second Year Team

If your school has an "8th grade day" or something similar where incoming freshmen go and see all the different clubs and activities they can participate in, you should definitely be there with your robot. My team always gets a big crowd of freshmen around their booth, and a couple of those students will usually show up to our 1st meeting each year. As far as retaining students, I would suggest using an FTC or VEX competition to engage new students and give them experience with a "build season" and the design process. Just make sure they are the ones doing the work so that they can learn.
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2010 - Granite State Regoinal Winners, Galileo quarterfinalists, IRI quarterfinalists
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