I'm going to post this here too just because people seem to come to this one and it's about starting a robotics team.
Robotics at UCF
I'm not interested in starting a FIRST team (maybe assisting them with their projects though). I'm more interested in getting a college robotics club going and promoting involvement in robotics projects.
And for your question, the point is all about getting high schoolers involved. Try mentoring a local high school and you can help them build their robot, maybe even build it for them just it should be considered their team and it should be based at their high school. There are many teams who get engineering companies to build their robot, same can happen with a college.