[petek]

It might help to create job descriptions for the areas needing mentorship to help people who have no robotics experience identify with your team's needs. For example, one non-engineering position might be: "Event Manager: organize team fund-raising activities; plan and oversee travel and shipping logistics [etc.]". For technical mentor positions, you might minimize the use of the word "robotics" (which could scare off some talented technical people) and instead talk about more general skills such as "motion control", "operator interfaces" and "embedded controllers".

You might start mentor recruiting with this task - recruit a parent to be your "HR" mentor who would be in charge of putting these job descriptions together and getting them out to the rest of the parents and your sponsors. Don't forget to follow up with phone calls - many professionals inboxes get swamped with requests and email is becoming less and less effective for cold contacts.