Team recruitment techniques?

[AtarashiiSekai]

Originally Posted by zachrobo1

Are you part of a high school? If you are, here is some relevant information. Usually we demo our competition robots at our 8th grade open house, letting kids drive our FTC robots and watch our FRC robots. If you have the resources, you could also build an outreach bot and bring it to football and basketball games. Our T-shirt launching robot we built was an awesome crowd-pleaser, and anything else that could interact with the crowd would be as well.

I have since graduated, but yes, our team is part of a high school.

These all seem like awesome ideas. How successful are they, do you think?