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Originally Posted by Dantvman27
Does anyone else have trouble recruiting new team members due to shows like battle bots? Whenever we do a school robot demonstration at club fairs and parent things, we always get kids that want to build destructive bots and when they see what we really do, they leave or never show up
Anyone else have this annoying dilemma?
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FIRST can't be everything to everyone.
I myself wouldn't go back into that bashing the Robotic Competition That Shalt Not Be Named as that has been done to death around here. It gets people thinking technology so they can't be all bad. There are quite a few FIRST folks who participate in the Robotic Competition That Shalt Not Be Named and have a pretty good time doing it.
Anyone who shows up wanting to do the Robotic Competition That Shalt Not Be Named explain to them what we do. If they are still interested in doing the other thing instead of letting them starve off their techno fix steer them towards
their high school competition . They may not be in FIRST but they are at least interested i technology and that's at least part of the battle.