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Originally Posted by GabrielaH

I’ve been spending quite some time trying to find ways to increase the amount of Hispanic and Latino students in FIRST (especially FRC). There just don’t seem to be many Hispanics in FIRST, and the fact that there are few Hispanics in the engineering community doesn’t help.

Of course, we also need to work on being more inclusive to other minority students, but each minority community has their own unique reasons as to why many are not in FIRST, and I’d like to hear some ideas for getting the Hispanic community more involved in FIRST and engineering.

Thanks for helping.

You make a very good point, which reminded me of this article posted a couple years ago on these four Mexican students that created a robot that crushed MIT's.

One of the easiest ways we found on recruiting members in general was doing demonstrations and presentations during our weekly school assembly. This raised the club to 38 students from 15 in around a month.