We try to do presentations at the school as often as possible, as it is a big plus in getting recruits. These are the ones we think are really useful:
- Freshman Night: This is where our school welcomes incoming freshmen to tour the campus and get a feel of what the school has to offer. We take the robot out and drive it around. We think this is great, because it gets students interested before they are exposed to high school "labels" and "cliques"
- Club Rush Day: Not sure if other schools do this, but our school has an extended lunch this day for people to sign up for clubs. They don't let us drive the bot around, but we usually have it opened up, and people are usually intrigued by our messy wiring
- T-Shirt Shooter at Football Games: This is probably what finally stripped us of the label as the "geek/nerd club". We finally got people to realize what we do was pretty awesome and generated a good amount of interest. People came up to us after every game saying, "That was really cool, how'd you make that?!"