First Meeting of the Year

[Steven Donow]

Personally, I feel like the first meeting(for new members) should just be a simple, short, small informational meeting. You describe what FIRST is, what your team does, how the schedule goes. Collect names, emails, homerooms, etc... Don't make it too intimidating, like, "YOU WILL SPEND 6 WEEKS OF YOUR LIFE BUILDING THIS ROBOT 24/7!!!", but obviously you have to say that there will be some amount of dedication required. That way if people have other things to do that afternoon(ie. sports), they can just be at the meeting for 5-10 minutes, then go. Then for the people who stay you do the robot demo, and maybe touch on the more intensive stuff.

Then the second meeting is when you can start going into the intense stuff, because the people there are more likely gonna be interested in continuing.