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Originally Posted by Beth Sweet
We are also losing half of our team because of the graduation issue this year (fortunately it sounds like one or two may be coming back as mentors!)
For things like the lunch, can that be done at the beginning of next school year? Our mentor crew is out of town already for this summer.
While the FLL and elementary/middle schools are good, does anyone have any more immediate recruitment methods?
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That what happened to us last year. When we started we were only 8 people, but we recruited more and when the season started we were 30+
Here are some ways:
-have a car wash/donation event. While you guys are washing cars, ask one of your people to introduce them to your robot and let them drive it. We got a lot of home schoolers and freshmen because of this.
-Home GAMES!!.. take your robot to the home games and do like a shenanigan with it. Like the time we chased our principal around the track with or 2005 robot, during the half time. We also built a Basketball Robot, just for the sake of entertainment and using it to recruit more people.
-Morning announcements in school. DO IT!.... its slow but it will help
-After School event or during class event. this year before we shipped out the robot, we took it in the senior hallway and shot balls out of it. Whoever catches a ball gets a candy....
Thats just some of the stuff we did. We also go to the Museums and Fairs with our robot and recruit mentors and students from other schools etc.
let me know if you have any questions..