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Yeah I agree here. I tried to explain FIRST to a couple at Atlanta and spent about 10 minutes at least. It's hard. You want to explain enough to let them know what they are getting into but you don't want to talk there head off and scare them off with words.

So since I'm a solution and not into implementing all my ideas I have an idea.

Have a FIRST day. Get some people interested by telling them simply the minimum. Let them show up 20 to 30 minutes early to school one day to tell them what is going on and give them their teams. First is fundraising. Nobody thinks about this but it has to be done. Get some teachers involved and give them Monopoly money. Have the students go to these teachers and give a short spiel or maybe have them do a certain thing to get the money, or a certain amount. Be creative. A couple teacher might want to be complete sponsor but take 4-5 minutes to talk to. Make it difficult but easy enough they can get some money. Fundraising last the school day. At the end of the school day the people meet together and are allowed to purchase lego parts with their monopoly money. Left over can be used to buy additional supplies for team poster, glitter, multi-color marker. Teams without money get to watch, tough, it happens. Current team member(s) will work with the teams for 3-4 hours building and programming a lego robot. At 7 o'clock you will run a short tournament. Teams will get awards for winning or other fun awards. Team spirit a must. This could give newbies a idea of what will happen and could be fun. Set-up could be a lot of work but invite people to come watch your mini tournament and add loud FIRST like music and it could be a lot of fun and helpful to your team.