Put up lots of colorful posters advertising the team, all over school. If your school has daily announcements, get something on there about how cool FIRST is!
Here are a few ideas for getting (and keeping!) new members:
- At the demo, have a shooting or driving contest. Anything hands-on will get people more involved and more interested! Which would you prefer - listening to people talk about how cool FIRST is, or actually being able to try some stuff out.
- Have a sign-up for those interested, and hold a less formal meeting a week following. That will give you a good idea of how many people are *really* interested.
- If you have the resources, show a video of this past season's competition. Get a match off of soap108's website, show parts of the video from kick-off ... Anything to get people excited about FIRST!!
- Make sure to keep contact with those interested over the summer ... if the team is doing a car-wash fundraiser, let them know about it! If they want to help, great. If not, at least they can get a car-wash to support the team
- If the team holds meetings over the summer, make sure people know about it!
- At the beginning of the next term, hold an orientation, get-to-know-you meeting. Do team-building activities to help rookies and vets mingle a bit!