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This year we got a pretty big turnout of new members, so we tried to be a little more organized from the start.

-Introduced FIRST and a little background about the team
-Have the subteam leaders introduce themselves and their subteams
-Have the new members introduce themselves and what attracted them to the team (so we could see what recruitment efforts worked)
-Get all of their info (Name, grade, email, phone, student ID, parent contact) and invite all of them to our Google Group
-Explain member expectations and some of our goals for the year
-Show last year's bot and some competition videos
-Q & A

Almost every single new person returned to the team for the next meeting, where we divided into subteams, started with intro and safety, and then got into the real training. For recruitment we brought the robot out to lunch during the 2nd week of school, but most of our members showed up because of hearing from others or our recruitment in the previous year.