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Harrison has a little shameless behaviour in the past
I think the trick to getting anyone involved is to make it look interesting and TO GET ATTENTION. (sounds so simple it might just work)

For instance, last year when my school was first getting into the competition (after not competing in a good 5 years) we got one of our old robots out and turned it into a little car (which we dubbed the 'Segway 2'). We drove that around the halls between periods, and a ton of people saw it and got interested.

If people are interested, hold a meeting, show some FUN videos (not boring stuff) of competitions and stuff. If you can, make your own videos, put good music to them, show people having fun at the comps. It will get people interested.

Once you get a firm member base (guys or gals) just get them to tell their friends that arent already involved to get involved.

Last year we only had a few girls on the team (5 to be exact). Most of them were on the media team (chairmans award, etc), but a couple helped out w/ fab and all that stuff.

This year those 5 girls are back, plus at least another 5 so far. Once people start to see that this robotics is fun (and "cool") more and more come out - both gals and guys.
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