[Alexa Stott]

Our town has a festival-type thing every year called Heritage Day. Many of the clubs from our school set up booths there and sell things. This year, the team decided to participate, but not to sell anything. We just brought the 04 robot and set it all up to do a demo in a section of the parking lot. We had a laptop set up with videos of the 06 season for people to watch as they passed by. Many people stopped at our booth to ask us for more information about the team. We even picked up some sponsors.

If your town has something like this (or maybe even your county-do a join effort with other local teams), it is a great way to get some community support. You can sell stuff if you want, but I think some people might just want to see something and not feel pressured to buy anything.

Write letters to your town council or your mayor to tell them more about the team. Try and see if you can set up booths at different events (the team did a demo a few years ago at the Invent America competition, which is how I found out about it). If you can organize yourselves well enough, a Lego camp is also a great way to let the community know what you do. It gets kids involved at a younger age which helps with team membership.