How does your team recruit students?

[sanddrag]

We do our recruiting in early May. This let's us get the students hooked on robotics before they run off and join other clubs, let's them prepare for offseason events in August and October, and let's us get in many weeks of training in the fall. The idea is that by January, they should be skilled and ready to be a competitive team, without having to learn anything new during build season. This year, we had about 4X the number of applicants we can accommodate, so the early recruiting has allowed us time to form plans to start a Vex team.

For recruiting, we did a demo at lunch time in the school amphitheater area, we put a flyer in every classroom, run a week-long notice in the school bulletin, and send our students to visit math, science, art, and programming classes to give a short talk about the team.

[Gregor]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

We do our recruiting in early May. This let's us get the students hooked on robotics before they run off and join other clubs, let's them prepare for offseason events in August and October, and let's us get in many weeks of training in the fall. The idea is that by January, they should be skilled and ready to be a competitive team, without having to learn anything new during build season. This year, we had about 4X the number of applicants we can accommodate, so the early recruiting has allowed us time to form plans to start a Vex team.

For recruiting, we did a demo at lunch time in the school amphitheater area, we put a flyer in every classroom, run a week-long notice in the school bulletin, and send our students to visit math, science, art, and programming classes to give a short talk about the team.

How do you recruit grade 9s?

[sanddrag]

Originally Posted by Gregor

How do you recruit grade 9s?

We would do 9th grade (only) recruiting in early September. Typically, we would add only about three 9th grade students each year. However, we've received such a growing demand for our FRC team that we are moving toward a 10-12 model, with a separate VRC 9th grade team.