[Digo]

In my team's rookie year (2000) we had a mentor from another team. Phil helped us a lot with his experience in FIRST, both in building the robot and organizing the team.

I remember I saw a film about FIRST competitions before I joined the group. Watching all that people having fun and the robots playing is something that made me very interested.

There are so many teams around, I think you can find someone to help (at least for some time, untill things get better) and I recommend showing competition videos too. Joining a FIRST team is a really exciting thing to do, and if people are not interested, something is wrong and may be fixed. Good luck!