[Joe J.]

Our process really starts just before then end of the school year. The Park has a "Club Night" or open house for all the current 8th graders who will be at the High Schools for next year. Each club and team (there are over 40)gets a table to set up a display (We drive the robot around) and the 8th graders can walk around to the different tables and can signing up on sheets and fill out post cards that the schools mail out mid summer with the date of the first meeting on them. Now in the fall we will put up fliers in all three schools with the meeting date and time. This year we are also planning on having the Student Television Station (STS) run a promo video in the mornings.

As for the first meeting we hold it at the school (since we normally meet at Visteon), at that meeting we go give a team history show some video so over season break downs basically try to give them a good idea of how we operates and how FUN it is. Then we in the next weeks we move the meeting back to Visteon and start to get them integrated into their different committees based on what they are interested in.