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Originally Posted by t41w4ne5ef0b
Expanding including other robotics team might not be feasible cuz nearby schools all have their own teams. Lamar HS has one, Westside has one, Booker T has one. I might try fliers but I dont know if our school will permit it...apparently we're under some fire right now cuz our "president" had the box with controllers and electronics shipped to school and it was put under his name for some reason, and we had to go to the principal to get it....We werent even considered an official club our first year....
anyways I just hope that my team has a future...cuz it looks really grim right now... 
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So couldn't your school partner with one of those teams? Students from your school could join one of those teams since they are already successful in running a team. I'm sure they would welcome you. This way, there would still be enough interested students.
For now, why not try to recruit members to your current team at your own high school, before giving up hope that you can maintain your team through until next season. Get rid of the negative outlook that it's too late and your school hates you- a positive attitude will work wonders. Maybe it will take a bit more effort to recruit students to join later in the academic year, because of lack of "club jamboree" or anything else. Advertise around the school. Put something in the school newspaper. Wear your shirts around school and tell people about the team. Invite people to come watch you play at your regional (if you are within reasonable driving distance). Perhaps work with the school to arrange sending a bus of spectators like many schools do for their sports teams. Advertise to younger students too- you will open their eyes to the wonders of science and technology as well as gain recruits for future seasons. Why not bring your robot to your local middle school(s), or find out if you can demo it in science classes at your school one day? You can work on this later in the season, when you do have a completed robot and the stress of competition is over. Get one thing done at a time, don't overwhelm yourself. Every team experiences some "bad luck", and it's up to each team to make the best of it and work their way through it, no matter how frustrating it is.