My team held an
open house at the beginning of the year. Parents, Board of Ed, and all the teachers were invited (even from our middle school). We prepared by making our warehouse extra spiffy and had each committee (or sub-team) head present the tasks they carried to move the team along. If you get one or two teachers to help over-see this, you could probably get more thereafter.
I have to ask now. How broad is your team? I'm sure that by opening up the tasks your team does, you can get more teachers interested. Somehow, teachers on my team seem to come in from completely different sides of the "science" field. An english teacher comes in occasionally to lend a help with Woodie Flowers and Chairman's. The school art teacher is a regular and helps with t-shirt design, crafting, etc. As a rookie team, I think it would be great to start looking at how other tasks can help improve the robot other than controls and mechanical.
Another question, how many teachers have you directly approached and asked for their support? Ask them directly what you would like them to do. An art teacher may be intimidated by "robots", but explain what they could help with.
Let us know how this goes.
