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Re: How to keep new students entertained?
Hopefully you're planning teambuilding exercises - short ones at the beginning of every meeting, longer ones or a half/whole day scheduled for the early fall once your student recruiting efforts are finished.
Training is really important, as others have already stated. Many teams use FTC as a way to get new students involved and for teaching purposes also.
Give new students responsibilities to get them engaged. Have them look at last year's kickoff/game manual and ask how they would play the game/design/build the robot. Then have the veteran team members explain why they made the decisions they made last January and asses how successful they were.
Take apart last year's robot and rebuild it!
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