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Originally Posted by nicolejoie
we are currently looking for more ways to recruit students (especially to the non-technical areas like media and awards).
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Don't be afraid to talk with other student organizations-- some kids on the school newspaper might be interested in getting some experience with journalism by doing live coverage on a competition (this last year at the Lake Superior/Northern Lights regionals we worked with team 2512 to cover the regionals in the Duluth News Tribune, an actual newspaper).
Some art students may be interested in getting their name out there doing graphic design work on your team's website.
If you have a science club or a science olympiad team, they might be interested in the applied science of robotics.
For awards and media, remember to emphasize that there is so much more to robotics than just building robots. Team 2500 Herobotics in our area doesn't advertise as a "FIRST Robotics Team," they call themselves a "FIRST Team." I know they once got a kid that really loved dance to make up a dance that they then performed in the stands at the 10000 Lakes regional.
If you can get permission to post posters around your school, you might want to put up more artistically inclined posters targeting more media-related activities-- one of our students made a series of graphic-design inspired posters for our recruiting this year, which attracted a decent number of new students.
Overall, though, for any kind of recruiting, you're going to get the best people through friends and relatives. If you can get your students to each bring a friend or two to a meeting, I think you'll be surprised how many will stick around.