[dachickindapit]

Our students showed off the robot at the freshmen orientation yesterday and tried to get some of those students interested. Most of our involvement comes through word-of-mouth, I believe. We typically have very few 4-year seniors -- most had friends who had a good time and so they joined, too. We put the robot in pep rallies, parades, and any other time we can get people to see it. Students see the robot and want to know more, so they come to the informational meeting(s) that we hold prior to the season starting. Sometimes these students join, but sometimes they don't, normally because of time conflicts and the time commitment that this program has.

I can really only report what I knew as a student and what I see happening now as a mentor -- I'm on the engineering side, not the school district, which does most of the school stuff.

Our students start school on September 6, so they haven't had the opportunity to really take the robot to the school and show it off or anything.