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Originally Posted by northendchopper
we have two teachers that help our team out. but in a school where the students out number the teachers by an extreamly large ammount, two teachers is not alot to spread the word
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I can completely relate to your situation. We have just one teacher dedicated to this program. He teaches senior math and physics courses. He has spoken already to all the math and science teachers about spreading the word but it's only getting to a small number of students. We've spoken to the computer science teachers to get them talking to their teachers about the program as well. Our principal fully supports the program but student and teacher support could've been better. I believe we'll get to more students if we go around the classes and talk to them about robotics. We will probably be targeting the math, science and computer science classes from Grade 9 to Grade 11. Our school doesn't have a machine shop anymore and therefore there haven't been any major tech classes in the last 2 years.
However, this year, we made quite an impression on the parent council and the principal and vice-principals. They are very interested in seeing the program succeed. Next year, we may have a lot of mentors through parents and FIRST alumni. I'm planning on going into software engineering or computer engineering next year but I'm very much interested in coming back after class to mentor as are most of the other grads on the core team. Really, our entire core team is a group of prospective engineering students.