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1) Hold a demonstration during lunch or during a club fair and have people put down their name if they are interested. Let them play with the bot if they want too. Have poster displaying some information and benifits such as scholarships and that it looks great on your college apps.

1a)Put the students in sub teams so they know their role and when building time starts make sure everyone has a task.

2)Emphasize to your potential teammates that no experience of any kind is required to join and if they are willing to learn they will be taught the skills. Also tell them that this competition is very fun and very intense.

3)Find some tech companies and try and get some of their engineers to voulenteer.

4)Some companies have grants you can apply for. You can probably contact a companies PR person to request sponsorship or setup a demonstration to recruit voulenteers. We usually do a few demonstrations at our sponsors places of work.

5)Go to as many off season competitions as you can and at these competitions let the people who aren't normally in charge run the show and your regulars step back. We usually have our graduating seniors do pretty much nothing at these events. Also for Preseason hold workshops for skills needed for FIRST, wiring, programming, pneumatics, torque vs. speed and etc.