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1) Advertise creatively. For example, this year, we made some funny posters and put them all around school (girls bathroom would be a good spot, but you would of course, want a girl on the team to put them in there,  ) |
This is definately a good idea. I don't know when it started or why, but people post flyers INSIDE bathroom stalls at our school. This kinda gets to me (especially the campaign posters...who wants faces staring at them in the bathroom?) but at the same time, it DOES kinda make people pay attention to you....
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2) Make a video or hand out explaining what robotics actually is. This year we made a humorous video called "10 Common misconceptions about the robotics team" It was a hit.
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Another of our great recruitment ideas. This video not only featured Liz running in the school parking lot and phony anti-battlebots segments, but me dressed up as a complete geek and pschopath drilling holes in things to get out anger over grades.
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3) After your creative recruitment efforts, bring girls who show up to meetings on the team to your workshop, and then ask them to use the power tools (with help/instructions/proper safety of course, at first). I remember being so scared to use the bench saw, but after I did I felt like I had just constructed a 3 story mansion. Using a power tool is quite empowering, no matter what gender you are.
Hope this helps; good luck!
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One word of advice on this: don't call it a girls meeting. or anything like that. if you have a meeting to learn how to use powertools that just happens to be geared towards girls, great. but don't say that its for girls. i personally find this incredibly degrading, as i can use powertools just as well as any guy out there, and i think other girls might too.