How to get students join the team?

[scottydoh]

As previously mentioned, we get most of our new recruits through presentations at the middle schools at the end of the year. We also have a lot of siblings and friends of siblings.

I think something that really helps a lot is an easy to navigate website. We've gotten a lot of recruits simply from them seeing our website on in out displays and signing up via the form on our page.

EDIT: I forgot to add this...

Believe it or not, but we make a huge effort to loose the "Robotics" connection. While it might seem counter-productive or "not in the spirit of FIRST", I feel that a lot of students are scared away by the word robotics...they feel that they aren't smart enough or that robots are only for the "nerdy" kids. When we give recruitment presentations, we promote all of the other equally as important roles on the team (business, art/graphic design, music, writing, public relations) This helps us include more of the high school community and bring in kids who would never even have considered joining.