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Re: Recruiting

We did a demo at a pep rally for the basketball team too. Didn't think of it before my last post.

I'm not sure how effective that was in getting people interested. The one problem with a pep rally demo is that even when students found out that our school has a new "robotics team", there was no information about what to do if they were interested (what this whole robotics thing is, where to find info, who to talk to, etc), and they still had no sense of what the demonstration was all about.

On the other hand, if we had known we would have the demo more than a couple days in advance, we could have asked for more time in the pep rally and shown a short video about FIRST, which would solve the above problem.

Regardless, any demonstration for recruitment has to be informative enough so that people won't dismiss their interest due to not knowing what to do with it. I've learned that it's important to make sure people know what they're looking at without having to pick up a piece of paper or even ask a question.
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