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Unread 15-08-2007, 17:49
CraigHickman
 
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Re: An Unusually Small Team...?

Our team has about 5 people that actually build the robot, and about 4 people that we use for extra hands (no mentors, sadly...). However, we still manage to produce insanely competitive bots each year. Over the summer, we had 2 meetings to plan on how to build the team, and here's what we came up with:

1. Video- Our school has video announcements every morning, and so we'll be making a recruitment video to get more knowledge of the team spread around.

2. Easy Access- Once we run the video, we'll be updating our website with a /join page, in order for students who are interested to sign up with their email or phone number, so we can let them know when meetings are.

3. Quick and welcoming response- Face it, we're students, we have the memory of a goldfish when it comes to scheduling. So what we're setting up is one or two people to be in charge of welcoming. We're going to get back to those people who sign up, most likely on the day after they sign up. Then we'll get them immediately involved, as we are constantly doing projects (RC electric full size car, in house VEX competition, tool and training sessions, as well as many other things).

4. Follow up surveys- Every few weeks, or maybe once every two months, we're going to send out a survey to members of both the team and random school students. The members of the team can give suggestions on how to improve the team, while the other students will let us know what they think of the robotics team, so we can work on our image in order to attract more students.


Due to the size of our team, and that fact that we're all seniors, the robot is actually taking a back seat to recruitment until we gain enough students to guarantee survival of the program.

Hope that helps!
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