[jgerstein]

There are lots of good responses here, but here's one more:

The parents want to help. They may not know how they can help - many of our team parents didn't - or even that you need help, but if you reach out to them, they can be an amazing resource, whether or not they have engineering experience.

We've had engineering parents helping for years, but when we started doing serious outreach to non-engineer parents, they came to the rescue in so many ways: helping with communications, guiding students on the business side of the team, helping the students make reversible bumper covers, and building field elements were just a few of those ways.