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How do you get members? Competition. Why? Competition builds interest and excitement.
Saying "Hey join the IronSproks robotics team, it's FUNN!!!" doesn't cut it.
Saying "Hey, join the IronSporks, we were one of the top teams at our competition and we beat some guys that have been doing this for 15 years!! Come join, it's FUNN!!!" does.
Without members you have nothing. EVEN if you have administration support, EVEN if you have sponsor support, and EVEN if you have a large mentor base, without students you don't have a FIRST team.
Pavan
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Exactly. One of the advantages of being competition focused will be greater publicity. Honestly, I've had a team lose sponsorship due to lack of competition prowess. Their reason was "Great, you're teaching students engineering, but we want our logo on something that wins."
As for the team name, it won't be IronSporks, however fun it would be to take my internet moniker and turn it into a team name. Most likely it will be something along the lines of Ninjaneering, or Mayhem Engineering (actually the "brand" of custom longboards that I've been building over the last year).