In our team, we host a competition that draws tons of people, both from the school, and community. In addition, we built, as a summer project, a t-shirt cannon for use at school events and school sports. We mentor three FLL teams in the middle school of our district. We go to the annual holiday parade in our town and drive the robot there. Take a peek at our website for more info! It is
http://www.team708.org . Make posters for hanging around the school, they help a lot! On communication, we use a free service called
Remind 101 , it will text your members the reminders you send out to Remind 101's servers. Just make sure they sign up! We have had great success with this on top of the usual email.