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Re: How to deal with lack of participation
One thing that has worked well for us is this. Very early in pre-build, we take the Rookies and spend a lot of time doing team-building with them. We get them to get familiar with the tools, working 1:1 with veterans and mentors.

We have 2 barriers to entry into build season - sort of selection process. 1: skills tests. They have to demonstrate they have some rudimentary understanding on safe use of the basic tools. They have to know a little bit of history of the team; and they have to know a bit about FIRST. 2: We take them to off-season events. There, they see how our team works at a competition. They also see how the other teams work. Teams that are better than us in terms of motivation, funding, spirit, etc. ... They see why they are spending all of those hours during build season.

We found out much earlier on that in previous seasons that students that don't know the basic things about our team, about our history, about FIRST... and if they haven't gone to off-season games - they are just lost and not very motivated; every single one of them stopped coming soon after.
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